Sorry if this is a bit long, but I wanted to give as much information
as I could and hope someone can help.
On a new installation of Kubuntu 22.04, cron jobs are not running and
this is driving me crazy.
The cron daemon is running
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ pgrep cron
827
I thought there might be a problem with a specific job so I created the
following simple script (which DOES work).
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ cat tstrun
#!/usr/bin/sh
cd /home/shoshana/Desktop
echo "aaaa" >> tst.txt
If I do: cd /home/shoshana/Desktop
./tstrun
the script works and I see aaaa in tst.txt
I then deleted ALL jobs in crontab and added only the following to
/etc/crontab
*/1 * * * * root /home/shoshana/Desktop/tstrun
Nothing happens - nothing written in tst.txt
I tried:
sudo grep CRON /var/log/syslog and got no output
I changed the script to:
#!/usr/bin/sh
echo "test echo from tstrun"
cd /home/shoshana/Desktop
echo "aaaa" >> tst.txt
and changed the crontab line to:
*/1 * * * * root /home/shoshana/Desktop/tstrun >>
/home/shoshana/Desktop/tstrun-log.txt
still no output in tst.txt and also no output in
/home/shoshana/Desktop/tstrun-log.txt
And as expected, if I do:
./tstrun >> tstrun-log.txt
I see the expected output in both files
I also tried:
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ sudo service cron stop
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ sudo service cron start
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ pgrep cron
3377
AND
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ sudo systemctl stop cron
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ sudo systemctl start cron
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ pgrep cron
3413
But still no change.
And just to be clear, on a different machine (also Kubuntu 22.04) all
the above DOES work - output to both files and if I do:
sudo grep CRON /var/log/syslog I get:
Feb 7 17:13:01 solomon-laptop CRON[16619]: (root) CMD
(/home/solomon/Desktop/tstrun)
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Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 - Kubuntu 20.04
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