sorry forgot to mention that cron IS running root at amanda init.d]# ps -ef | grep cron root 13686 1 0 07:18 ? 00:00:00 crond root 13771 6676 0 07:34 pts/2 00:00:00 grep cron On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM, bluethundr <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: > hey centos > > long time no hear! :) I'm having a small issue where the backup jobs > that I set to run in the crontab of the backup user do not appear to > be running. Here's how I set it up (with crontab -e as the backup > user): > > run amanda every night (check at 2:45 and backup at 3) > > 45 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amcheck /var/log/amanda/crontab/amcheck.log > * 3 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump /var/log/amanda/crontab/amdump.log > > The executables are where they are supposed to be and run if you type > them in on the command line: > > [amandabackup at amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amcheck > -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 68624 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck > > > [amandabackup at amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amdump > -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 9637 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amdump > > Although I'm not sure what the 's' indicates in the permissions of amcheck. > > > And here's a tail of the cron logs > > [root at amanda init.d]# tail /var/log/cron > Jan 5 07:01:01 newamanda crond[13612]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) > Jan 5 07:17:09 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT > (amandabackup) > Jan 5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) REPLACE (amandabackup) > Jan 5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup) > Jan 5 07:18:01 newamanda crond[1448]: (amandabackup) RELOAD (cron/amandabackup) > Jan 5 07:18:39 newamanda crond[13686]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) > Jan 5 07:23:01 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT > (amandabackup) > Jan 5 07:23:47 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup) > Jan 5 07:25:38 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT > (amandabackup) > Jan 5 07:25:53 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup) > > thanks in advance! > > > -- > GPG me!! > > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F186197B > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F186197B