On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:16:29PM +0100, Martin Dickopp wrote: > > What happens if you specify `* * * * *' (i.e. every minute) as time > specification? >
Well, now that seems to work. I added that entry via 'crontab -e' and it did work. After that, I also tried some partial times, such as "41 * * * *" and then "43 20 * * *", and they both worked. Once I did that, the same applies to entries such as "50 20 * * Thu". The more I troubleshoot this, the more confused I am. > > Does your clock run monotonically, or could it step (possibly because > you run tools which synchronize it to some external reference time)? > No, I just checked and I'm not using 'ntp' or any such program to sync the system time. > If you run `date' and `date -u' from /etc/crontab, what do they show? > These are the lines I added to the "/etc/crontab" file: * * * * * root /bin/date > /tmp/date_crontab * * * * * root /bin/date -u > /tmp/date2_crontab The output was, in that order: Thu Mar 18 20:59:01 CST 2004 Fri Mar 19 02:59:01 UTC 2004 It looks fine to me. I suppose I should go ahead and reboot the darn thing, just to see if this clears up. I just cannot find any rational explanation to this behavior. Sure, this is not Windows. Still, let's see. ---------------- Nitebirdz http://www.sacredchaos.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
