Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:19:43 +0000 From: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: cron mystery Message-ID: <45E3089F.9070000@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
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Can anyone think of something that can stop cron working for a particular user? I just noticed on one of our 6.1 machines the crontab for a particular user wasn't run properly since dec 21. There were hourly and daily jobs, but neither seemed to be running. Looked in var/cron and see no deny or allow files. The user x had an proper crontab. In the end I modified the users crontab and rewrote it before ################## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * $HOME/bin/daily 19 * * * * $HOME/bin/hourly after ################## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly and at 41 past the hour the hourly job came back. Is it the HOME variable or the act of rewriting? User did have home defined in /etc/passwd. -- Robin Becker
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