Re: job in crontab not running
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:25, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do a "grep -i cron /var/log/syslog" and check for the output.
# grep -i cron /var/log/syslog
Nov 8 07:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6222]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 07:49:05 bull crontab[6280]: (laltest) LIST (laltest)
Nov 8 08:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6312]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 09:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6370]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 10:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6428]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
#
and then the previous:
# grep -i cron /var/log/syslog.1
Nov 7 07:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[32585]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 08:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[32643]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 09:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[32701]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 10:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[32759]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 10:37:54 bull crontab[338]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (laltest)
Nov 7 10:38:03 bull crontab[338]: (root) REPLACE (laltest)
Nov 7 10:38:03 bull crontab[338]: (root) END EDIT (laltest)
Nov 7 10:39:01 bull /usr/sbin/cron[1123]: (laltest) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)
Nov 7 11:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[612]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 12:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[676]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 13:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[988]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 14:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1051]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 15:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1111]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 16:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1170]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 17:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1228]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 18:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1295]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 19:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2468]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 20:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2526]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 21:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2584]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 22:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2642]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 7 23:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2700]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 00:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2764]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 01:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[9327]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 02:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[27899]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 03:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[22937]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 04:00:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[28318]: (root) CMD (test -x
/usr/sbin/cron-apt && /usr/sbin/cron-apt)
Nov 8 04:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[30897]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 05:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[5973]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 06:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6031]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov 8 06:25:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6043]: (root) CMD (test -x
/usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ))
#
> I don't know why is failing, though the most commom error is not taking
> into account environmental variables that you have to may have to
> manually set for shell, paths, etc...
>
> You can append "2>&1 >> /var/log/nightly-git.log" to get the output
> logged to a file.
That's I'll see if that gives any more information.
Cheers
Adam
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