On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:37:48PM +0100, Martin Dickopp wrote: > > - Could it be that you have accidentally embedded an invisible control > character in the file? >
I just checked by doing a ":set list" from within 'vi', and everything looked normla. > - Is there a newline character after the last line? > Yes. > - While you test `crontab -e', don't specify the next minute as time, > but one minute after the next (i.e. two minutes after the current > time). `cron' re-reads its crontabs once a minute, but only executes > newly found jobs in the /next/ minute. > > BTW, does `crontab -e' work for users other than root? > I just did this by su'ing as user "jortega" and running 'crontab -e' to enter the following lines: 35 20 * * * /bin/echo "testing" > /tmp/testing 35 20 * * * /bin/date > /tmp/time This correctly created the file under "/var/spool/cron/crontabs", and it also appears to have the correct ownership and permissions. # ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ total 8 -rw------- 1 root jortega 278 Mar 17 20:31 jortega -rw------- 1 root root 243 Mar 15 18:55 root Yet, it failed to run at the specified time. However, I found something quite interesting in the "/var/log/syslog" file: Mar 17 20:40:23 milan crontab[17372]: (jortega) REPLACE (jortega) Mar 17 20:40:23 milan crontab[17372]: (jortega) END EDIT (jortega) Mar 18 02:41:01 milan /usr/sbin/cron[193]: (jortega) RELOAD (crontabs/jortega) I'm not sure I understand this. So, I make a change to the crontab via 'crontab -e', and when I finish editing the file and save it, the logs display two entries from a 'crontab' process (PID 17372) replacing and editing the file, which makes sense. But what is going on with that other entry with *tomorrow's* timestamp and a very wacky time? Where is the '/usr/sbin/cron' command getting that system time from? Just in case, sending the killhup signal to the process didn't seem to help either. ---------------- Nitebirdz http://www.sacredchaos.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
