From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 18:21:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF8716A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:21:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zeppo.candhsoftware.com (tcsnapanas19poolc65.tcsn.uswest.net [65.100.103.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0739943D4C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:21:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from awc@candhsoftware.com) Received: from candhsoftware.com ([65.116.227.104])iBEIFqd5086625 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:15:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from awc@candhsoftware.com) Message-ID: <41BF2F0A.6020203@candhsoftware.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:20:58 -0700 From: Andy Clements User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: cron not running job X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:21:09 -0000 Hello All, I'm having problems getting my freshly update FreeBSD 5.3 system to run my cron jobs. Logged in as root, I enter the job in root's crontab with the following command crontab -e I enter the job in the following format: 05 10 * * * /root/cronjobs/cvs-sup.sh The script has the following permissions: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 255 Dec 13 10:39 cvs-sup.sh I can run the script as root with no errors. I look in the /var/log/cron log and I don't see any attempt by cron to run the job. There is no error either. There are entries for the edit of the crontab: Dec 14 10:03:36 bukowski crontab[632]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root) Dec 14 10:03:45 bukowski crontab[632]: (root) REPLACE (root) Dec 14 10:03:45 bukowski crontab[632]: (root) END EDIT (root) Dec 14 11:04:00 bukowski /usr/sbin/cron[405]: (root) RELOAD (tabs/root) But nothing else. So, I'm at a lost. I have the understanding that cron should immediately recognize any changes to the file, but it doesn't seem to be working. I even re-booted in desperation. Did I forget some small tid-bit that needs to change for this to work? I've checked the Handbook, the FAQ, Google and the mailing list, but I haven't seen any solutions. Please CC me with your answer as I am not on the mailing list. Thanks in advance, Andy Clements