Re: Cron Not Working On Etch
On Friday 29 August 2008, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 08/29/2008 11:29 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I
> > put in a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make
> > upgrading to Lenny easier). Everything seems to have gone well,
> > except for one point: Cron is not behaving well.
> > [...]
>
> See if the permissions are correct in /var/spool/cron/crontabs . The
> directory should have the permissions drwx-wx--T (root:crontab), and
> the files within should be readable and writable only to the user.
>
> HTH
Thanks!
The permissions are correct. I haven't touched the directory or any
files at all. I've used crontab to add or edit events.
It's working now, but that's after adding the events again. It could
stop in a few days, like it has before. I just have no idea why it
won't consistently do jobs for this user.
Hal
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