Re: Cron not working

["Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>]

Hi

On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 13:02 -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
> 
> 

"Nothing happens" ? odd. There _should_ be entries in /var/log/syslog
from cron when it invokes jobs. And if it does, you should have mail
in /var/mail/haines ...