On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:17:35 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chad Feller wrote:
> > 2) Check your appropriate log file (I use sysklogd), so something
> > like tail -f /var/log/syslog might reveal something of interest.
> Nothing special, no errors and no sign of it runnin
Chad Feller wrote:
Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to
the cron group (gpasswd -a cron), then as my regular
user ran "crontab -e" and entered
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user'
Well ... it's work
Haven't been able to reproduce your problem yet, but just out of curiosity:
What version of cron are you running? I've got:
# emerge vixie-cron -pv
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r
Chad Feller wrote:
Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to
the cron group (gpasswd -a cron), then as my regular
user ran "crontab -e" and entered
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user'
I just tried this (
kashani wrote:
Hmmm I've never had to so more than add users to the cron group... is
it possible that the crons are running, but that the scripts have path
issues or something similar?
No. I have tried echo commands, which should hit the user email, I have
tried simple scripts that put a f
Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to
the cron group (gpasswd -a cron), then as my regular user
ran "crontab -e" and entered
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user'
Just to get it to email me every five
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
According to this document, it indicates my setup SHOULD be working. It
does suggest creating a cron.allow and adding all members that are
allowed to use cron to this file. I fail to see the reasoning of adding
users to the cron group AND to this file, but that i
Renat Golubchyk wrote:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
BTW ... following this document explicity ... it is still not working.
$ ps ax | grep cron
3469 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
3515 pts/0S+ 0:00 grep cron
$ ls -ld /etc/cron*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Mar 24
Renat Golubchyk wrote:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
According to this document, it indicates my setup SHOULD be working. It
does suggest creating a cron.allow and adding all members that are
allowed to use cron to this file. I fail to see the reasoning of adding
users to
Hi!
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:27:01 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have several local users on my machine that are members of the cron
> group. Vixie-Cron runs as my cron agent. It is running. However,
> when I setup jobs to run in the users crontab, they are NEVER
> e
Chad Feller wrote:
I haven't tried this on gentoo, but in general, and on other linux
distros:
from crontab(1):
If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein
in order
to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file
does not
exist but the cron
I haven't tried this on gentoo, but in general, and on other linux distros:
from crontab(1):
If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in
order
to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file
does not
exist but the cron.deny file does exist
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