Re: Problems with Cron
I'm trying the /etc/crontab because the user's crontab files are not
executed. When they work (I hope they will!), then this fetchmail job
will be executed there. I tried creating the user crontabs both as
superuser (crontab -u sanchez -e) and from the user account (crontab
-e). There's no difference.
I was not aware of the syntax "crontab <filename>". What is "filename"?
/var/spool/cron/crontab/sanchez (or something like that)? I'm not
in my computer right now, I'll try tonight to see what happens.
Thank you,
P. Sanchez
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In message "Problems with Cron", paul@braille.uwo.ca writes:
> hello, this is a silly question but did you do a crontab <filename> after
> you made your users' crontabs.
> if not try that. Couldn't you try to do your fetchmail cronjob in your
> area instead of /etc/ just an observation.
> Paul
>
>
> On 17 Dec 1997, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
>
> > 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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