Problems with Cron

["Pedro Sanchez" <psanchez@nortel.ca>]

Hello,

I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required
to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the
current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron:

1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file
   and included the line
   
   0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
   
   However this is never executed. Other than editing this file, is there
   something else that I have to do?

2. User crontab files are also ignored. I use crontab -e to create the files
   and I've tried with and without /var/spool/cron/allow (with valid user
   entries).
   
I've checked the system time, is ok, and I even re-installed the cron debian
package. After editing /etc/crontab I rebooted my PC (a la Win95) but
nothing changed.

I've used cron before and never found any problems. I tend then to believe
this is not a problem with cron but with something else, however I can't
figure out what. Any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you,

P. Sanchez
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