Re: Cron not working

[Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:

> This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup
> with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog:
> 
>   # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup
> 
> I can run the script manually with # /home/haines/scripts/backup.
> 
> Cron daemon is running:
> 
>   $ ps -ef | grep cron | grep -v grep root      8972     1  0 12:37 ?   
>       00:00:00 cron

It's most likely that your script is using some environment variable 
that's not (inherently) present to the cron daemon;  or a pathing issue 
(e.g. ~/Documents is different to you than it is to the [root] Cron job).