> From: Kent Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:44:04 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cron not running? RedHat 6.2 > > Joseph Koenig wrote: >> I've got an old RedHat 6.2 box that just does some IP aliasing and sharing >> of a DSL line - The system is an old 486 with 32MB of RAM. I recently put a >> script in cron to run every night. However, the script isn't being executed. >> I checked all of the normal things: >> >> Making sure the paths are correct and full >> Executing the script manually >> Checked root's mail for errors (none) >> Rebooted >> crontab -l to make sure it is actually loaded >> >> I even put some basic scripts into cron to touch files, things like that. >> It's not that the scripts are running and producing errors, but rather they >> aren't running at all. A grep of ps aux shows that 'crond' is running. The >> cronline is a simple: >> >> 01 11 * * * /usr/bin/lynx -dump http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/index.php >> >> Does anyone have any ideas as to what in the world would cause cron not to >> even attempt to execute the script? I also tried putting the lynx command in >> a shell script and having cron execute the shell script. The shell script >> was set to executable and ran just fine manually. >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. > > Is crond running?
Yeah - I kinda buried that in one of the paragraphs. I did: ps aux | grep 'cron' Which returns 2 results - one being my grep, the other is 'crond'. Thanks Joe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
