Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 15:33, Bob Proulx wrote: > The nscd is not required for cron jobs to run.  I don't want to > suggest that you thrash your production machine but if you could test > this on a test machine I think you will find that nscd is not required > for cron.  Really it isn't!  I assur

Re: Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
> You can append "2>&1 >> /var/log/nightly-git.log" to get the output > logged to a file. Those redirections are the wrong way round. Only standard output is redirected to the file. To redirect both standard output and standard error you need to append ">> /var/log/nightly-git.log 2>&1" -- Chee

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Mercer wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting > >> this allowed jobs to run successfully! > > > > Does this mean that you are running NIS/YP or LDAP from the network? > > Are your servers "slow" such as on a remote network or othe

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:21, Bob Proulx wrote: >> from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting >> this allowed jobs to run successfully! > > Does this mean that you are running NIS/YP or LDAP from the network? > Are your servers "slow" such as on a remote network or oth

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Mercer wrote: > Nov 8 10:48:01 bull /usr/sbin/cron[1123]: (laltest) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting > this allowed jobs to run successfully! Does this mean that you are running NIS/YP or LDAP from the network? Are your serv

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:44:58 -0600, Adam Mercer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:25, Camaleón wrote: > >> Do a "grep -i cron /var/log/syslog" and check for the output. (...) > and then the previous: No trace, it seems not to be triggered at all. >> I don't know why is failing, though the m

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:44, Adam Mercer wrote: >> You can append "2>&1 >> /var/log/nightly-git.log" to get the output >> logged to a file. > > That's I'll see if that gives any more information. I created another entry in the crontab with the logging enabled for a few minutes in the future and

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:25, Camaleón wrote: > Do a "grep -i cron /var/log/syslog" and check for the output. # grep -i cron /var/log/syslog Nov 8 07:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6222]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Nov 8 07:49:05 bull crontab[6280]: (laltest) LIST (

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:52:33 -0600, Adam Mercer wrote: > On a squeeze box I'd like to run a script every night at 1:01am, as such > I have the following entry in my crontab: > > $ crontab -l > 1 1 * * * /home/laltest/test/nightly/nightly-git.sh > $ > > However the script never runs and I d