[CentOS] Crontab not working....

[Ian mu]

Hiya, thanks a lot for that Will (sorry spelt name wrong before!), think
you're reply has almost got there...

If I dos2unix the file it works, if I use vi/m (what I normally use) or nano
etc, it doesn't work (but will if I then dos2unix it again)?

SELinux I think is on permissive/targeted (I'm not too familiar with selinux
as someone else set it up, but my understanding is that it should allow all,
but log/audit it?).

Looks like thats it, but not sure still why its not saving it correctly?

Thanks, Ian

(lsattr shows ------------- logadmin btw)


On 9/25/06, Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/09/06, Ian mu <mu.llamas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hiya, thanks for that Wil, gives me some ideas. I notice the Bad file
> > descriptor error in there, I've pasted the part there it starts to run
> it
> > below (I'm only using touch as a basic test as other cron entries don't
> > work, touch outside of cron works fine). I'm a bit clueless looking at
> the
> > rest really though, is it definitely the bad file descriptor thats
> causing
> > it, and any ideas why as its fine outside of cron?
> >
> > read(6, "03 11 * * * /bin/touch /home/log"..., 4096) = 47
> > lseek(6, 47, SEEK_SET)                  = 47
> > read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
> > read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
> > close(6)                                = 0
> > munmap(0x2a9556c000, 4096)              = 0
> > close(6)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad
> > file descriptor)
>
> It looks to me like crond is opening your crontab file OK, it appears
> to have read the line then choked on something.
>
> Which editor are you using to edit the crontab? I wonder if it's
> something weird in the CR/LF sequences? You could try running dos2unix
> on /var/spool/cron/logadmin ? Could it possibly be SELinux? Have you
> got SELinux enabled?
>
> I'd also check the extended attributes of all files and directories
> invoved in case something's out there (use "lsattr").
>
> Will.
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