RE: Cron job not cooperating

["Tom Scrape" <tom@eapdd.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:32 AM
> 
> Tom Scrape wrote:
> > Cron.log shows nothing:
> > root@spider:/var/log# cat cron.log |grep pflogsumm
> > root@spider:/var/log#
> 
> Err...
> 
> The program is not executed by cron but by run-parts (which is
> executed by cron, if that matters, via /etc/crontab).
> 
> Programms in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly,hourly} are executed
> regularly via run-parts.  Their name doesn't appear in the logs
> since it's not cron that executes them.
> 
> For testing purpose, try executing it standalone, and maybe add
> debug output (echo "$(date) script started" >> /var/log/daily.log)
> and inspect the log after the daily jobs have been run.
> 

Thanks for the clarification.  Hadn't realized that.

Is there a location (eg. log file) where run-parts activity can be found?  Or is
it rather just hit-and-miss debugging when trying to figure out a problem?  

For reference, the problem is fixed thanks to the previous suggestion, but I'm
curious now as to the mechanisms behind this.  Man pages enough?


--T