Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:11:16 -0500 From: Matthew Bettinger <mbettinger@championelevators.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cron stopped working Message-ID: <200304091011.16805.mbettinger@championelevators.com>
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Hello, I have the following crontab entry for root: via crontab -e SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin HOME=/var/log #======================================================== # Crontab entries to execute flexbackup to dump /depot /general /usr /var # on specified days. Level 0 (full) on Wed @ midnight and Incrementals # every other day at midnight -M.Bettinger 9.17.02 #======================================================== 55 23 * * 3 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 0 55 23 * * 4 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 1 55 23 * * 5 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 2 55 23 * * 6 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 3 56 23 * * 0 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 4 55 23 * * 1 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 5 55 23 * * 2 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 6 This is sopposed to run a backup script at night however it appears to not be working, or is it? In /var/log/cron shows : Apr 8 13:08:00 tester /usr/sbin/cron[75516]: (root) CMD (root /usr/local/bin/ flexbackup -fs all -level 6) If i cut and paste the exact command in sh shell it works. System info... tester# uname -a FreeBSD tester.championelevators.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Thu Dec 5 21:58:26 CST 2002 root@tester.championelevators.com:/general/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 tester# uptime 10:15AM up 121 days, 1:06, 1 user, load averages: 0.35, 0.09, 0.03 ps displays that cron is running. root 115 0.0 0.4 1028 448 ?? Is 9Dec02 1:48.07 /usr/sbin/cron regards, Matt Bettinger
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