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maestral79
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 Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 6:38 am Post subject: Problems with crons |
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Hello! On my gentoo box I use dcron a scheduler. I never had problems with that, but suddnely tasks scheduled in /etc/crontab stoped running without any logs in /var/log/dmesg od /var/log/messages or in cron logs. I allready tried to change scheduler and installed vixie-cron, but the result is the same. I can still run tasks manually.
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Jimini
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:31 am Post subject: |
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Hi maestral79,
please post the relevant lines from your crontab(s) or better: your whole crontab.
I assume you have already checked, if the daemon is running and / or restarted it?
Best regards,
Jimini
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maestral79
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| Jimini wrote: | Hi maestral79,
please post the relevant lines from your config or better: your whole crontab.
I assume you have already checked, if the daemon is running and / or restarted it?
Best regards,
Jimini |
my crontab looks like:
# for vixie cron
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# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v 1.1 2005/03/04 23:59:48 ciaranm Exp $
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# Global variables
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=address@domain.com
HOME=/
# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
#m u d m dt
00 0 * * * root exec /util/procedure/file0
00 1 * * * root exec /util/procedure/file1
00 20 * * * root exec /util/procedure/file2
51 11 * * * root exec /util/procedure/file3
00 22 * * * root exec /util/procedure/file4
#55 17 * * * root exec /util/procedure/file5
00 2 * * * root exec /util/procedure/file6
file0, file1,.. are batch scripts I use for backup. Scripts still work if I run them manually.
Let me say that everything worked well for two years and suddnely stoped working without me touhing anything.
Thank you.
Marko |
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Jimini
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:11 am Post subject: |
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I use vixie-cron on several machines and as far as I know, you don't need "exec" in your crontab. So you could delete "exec" and try lines like
| Code: | 00 0 * * * root /util/procedure/file0
00 1 * * * root /util/procedure/file1
00 20 * * * root /util/procedure/file2
51 11 * * * root /util/procedure/file3
00 22 * * * root /util/procedure/file4
#55 17 * * * root /util/procedure/file5
00 2 * * * root /util/procedure/file6 |
Could be worth a try.
Best regards,
Jimini
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maestral79
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| Jimini wrote: | I use vixie-cron on several machines and as far as I know, you don't need "exec" in your crontab. So you could delete "exec" and try lines like
| Code: | 00 0 * * * root /util/procedure/file0
00 1 * * * root /util/procedure/file1
00 20 * * * root /util/procedure/file2
51 11 * * * root /util/procedure/file3
00 22 * * * root /util/procedure/file4
#55 17 * * * root /util/procedure/file5
00 2 * * * root /util/procedure/file6 |
Could be worth a try.
Best regards,
Jimini |
I'll try but as I said, everything worked well till now even with those exec in config.
Thank you |
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