Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:23:56 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron not working till 28/08/07 Message-ID: <20070920012356.GA24435@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20070919214641.671EE16A4A5@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20070919214641.671EE16A4A5@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 21:46 , after knocking over a stack of dishes on the heat sink freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wondered out loud about: > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:36:07 -0000 (GMT) > From: "DSA - JCR" <juancr@dsa.es> > Subject: Cron not working till 28/08/07 > Hi all !! > I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. > All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped > for some reason, I don't know why. > I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also with daily, > weekly and monthly reports, but suddenly all stopped (I don't > receive nothing in my email). > Can you help me? I had the same problem. It was after I did an upgrade. I found that /etc/crontab had gotten copied somehow to /var/cron/tabs/root. I did get errors of 'root not found'. [or similar]. Check to see if that hasn't happened to you. By any chance had you performed a 'crontab -e' and screwed things up and deleted the cron. /etc/crontab runs the daily scripts you should be getting. Having that also in /var/cron/tabs made my daily messages go away. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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