Bug#5268: cron dies nightly
"Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:
> Well, it turns out that even a working cron is marked as "sigsuspend".
Yes, that's how cron works. It wakes up every 60 seconds to see if
any files have been edited. If so, it sorts the jobs to figure out
the least one and counts minutes till then.
> Yup. It has totally stopped. I tried adding to my crontab file and none
> of the commands got run until I stopped and restarted cron.
Check the permissions of crontab - should 4755.
Do an strace on cron while you're running crontab. See if it reads
the file in on the next minute.
Guy
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