Re: cron fails following hamm upgrade
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:34:32 PST, I wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to /var/log/syslog, my cron was working all day on Feb 8 (the
> day I upgraded to hamm), and stopped working the following morning when
> I rebooted. /var/log/syslog now shows that crontab edits, removals,
> and lists work fine, and I've reviewd my crontab entries with
> diligence, however restarting crontab consistently "fails":
>
> --------------/var/log/syslog--------------
> localhost crontab[951]: (kotsya) LIST (kotsya)
> localhost crontab[971]: (kotsya) REPLACE (kotsya)
> localhost crontab[971]: (kotsya) END EDIT (kotsya)
> localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1520]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
> localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1520]: (CRON) STAT FAILED (/etc/cron.d)
>
> One thing that seems unusual is that there is no /etc/cron.d, as syslog
> complains (above), so I'm wondering if this may have resulted from the
> hamm upgrade. I've reviewd the upgrade document, but see no mention of
> it. I have all the proper startup scripts in /etc/rc*.d/ for cron
> (just like anacron). Also, anacron works fine.
I just found the problem: /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.list says that
there's supposed to be an /etc/cron.d file (but I don't have one), so
I'll purge and reinstall cron and everything should be ok.
Thanks anyway and sorry if I bugged ya for nothin!
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