On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 06:49:39PM +0000, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:58:02 -0500, you wrote in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> 
> >Probably not. I just tried the same thing on my 6.0 with no trouble.
> >Is this the only line in your crontab? You are editing crontab with
> >'crontab -e' correct?
> 
> yes, it is the only line... i've also tried starting from scratch.
> 
> >Check your version of cron:
> >
> >$ rpm -q vixie-cron
> >vixie-cron-3.0.1-33
> 
> the same.
> 
> >And make sure it's sane:
> >$ rpm -Vvv vixie-cron
> 
> yes, it's sound per pro the results of 'rpm -Vvv'.
> 
> weird thing is ... when i edit the crontab file ('crontab -e') what i
> *see*, is not what *crond* uses as my crontab : only two days ago, i
> realised that an old crontab entry for posting a faq to usenet is
> still being used !!! 
> 
> totally baffled.

You might want to try looking in /var/spool/cron/<userid> and see what
you see. The big things are that it should be owned by root and have
600 permissions. The directory should also be owned by root and have
700 permissions.

Also look in /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d and make sure that what you
think is coming from /var/spool/cron isn't really coming from one of
these. Then also verify /etc/crontab.[daily|hourly|monthly|weekly] to
verify the same. cron is a many-headed beast. Very convenient in
having so many ways to set it up, but also a pain in the butt
sometimes.

Rob


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