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On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 5:18 PM Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) > > > > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 - Kubuntu 20.04 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list -- linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > To unsubscribe send an email to linux-il-le...@cs.huji.ac.il >
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