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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060925/d11077b9/attachment-0005.html>