On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:25:50AM +0200, Phantazm wrote: > I cant get user crontabs to work. > > cron is running > crontab -l gives correct output. > EVERYTHING looks fine. I've must have missed something. Does the 'at' command work? It does something similar and also uses the cron daemon, as far as I know. Just try something simple as the following and see if you get any output on screen and get an email: maurits@mauritsvanrees:~$ echo ls | at now warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 136 at 2005-08-16 10:24 Also, what does your /var/spool/cron/ directory look like? Maybe some permissions or owner/group settings have gone awry. Here is the output on my system: maurits@mauritsvanrees:~$ ls -l /var/spool/cron/ totaal 0 drwx------ 2 daemon daemon 72 2005-08-16 10:24 atjobs drwx------ 2 daemon daemon 48 2005-08-16 10:24 atspool drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 96 2005-08-14 00:50 crontabs As a small test I tried this in my crontab: 35 10 * * * hello_world which obviously failed, but at least the crontab was executed and I got an error message in the mail. BTW, no cron problems on my system. Here is my 7:30 alarm clock in crontab. :) 30 7 * * * /usr/bin/ogg123 -q /music/Neal_Morse/One/08.Reunion.ogg -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse
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