Did you restart the crontab service after the change ? If not, crontab wont be aware of the changes.
Nassri
rado wrote:
for some reason, crontab is not picking up a job here
listed. I, for
one see nothing wrong w/it as I have been running approx the same basic crontab for well over a year now. I have just put this box on line about a week ago tho soooo...here's the crontab: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/
# run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 05 * * * * /usr/bin/freshclam #
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 20:41 +0000, ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif wrote:
Did you restart the crontab service after the change ? If not, crontab wont be aware of the changes.
Nassri
rado wrote:
for some reason, crontab is not picking up a job here
listed. I, for
one see nothing wrong w/it as I have been running approx the same basic crontab for well over a year now. I have just put this box on line about a week ago tho soooo...here's the crontab: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/
# run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 05 * * * * /usr/bin/freshclam #
The redhad admin doc says you don't have to restart crond after making changes because it runs every minute although I have done a restart on it many times.
rado wrote:
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
In this line the 'account name is missing:
05 * * * * /usr/bin/freshclam
The file /etc/crontab has a different syntax, than user crontab files.
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