Re: cron log file empty

2011-12-17 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:16:02PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > That's weird also because there is no uid 0 in the /etc/passwd you sent > earlier. You're right. I never even noticed that. Also explains why there wasn't a user name associated with the UID. D'Oh! > Could there be some confu

Re: cron log file empty

2011-12-17 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 09:04:38AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > cron logs to syslog, which by default uses the Windows log and which you > can read directly in Windows or filter with cronevents. Good to know for the future. > It's the first time I can recall where this is a problem, except

cron log file empty

2011-12-16 Thread Mike Brown
I'd look into the cron log file to see if it held any clues as to why it won't run anything in my crontab, except that it is empty. What good is a log file if nothing is logged? Oh crap, now it is back to wrong file owner. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net/~\ The A