From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 26 07:00:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14239 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14209 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:00:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id KAA29918 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:00:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA18791 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:04:58 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199901261504.KAA18791@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: cron does not work! In-Reply-To: <199901261316.VAA10517@dns.hgs.com.cn> from xiyuan qian at "Jan 26, 99 09:16:33 pm" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:04:58 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org xiyuan qian recently said: > Hi, my cron daemon suddenly does not work. I checked the processes > and found that the cron daemon was running. But it do not run the > /etc/crontab. > My crontab file is as followings: > > # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD > # > # $Id: crontab,v 1.13 1996/01/06 22:21:37 ache Exp $ > # From: Id: crontab,v 1.6 1993/05/31 02:03:57 cgd Exp > # >From my crontab -l I see this. : # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.AYIlQX4391 installed on Mon Jan 4 10:52:46 1999) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6.2.3 1998/03/09 11:42:00 jkh Exp $) #set up environment variables # You'll notice the version is much later, and it is in /var/cron/tabs. cron says it is supposed to run /etc/crontab if the mod time was changed, but I've always just run the daily/weekly/monthly thingies from /etc/crontab and everything else goes in the named crontabs. Try the crontab -e and see what happens. Bill -- bill@bilver.magicnet.net | bv@wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message