Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-93
Followup-For: Bug #260789
Hi!
I see very similar phenomena to what the OP reported. Cronjobs from
personal crontabs are not executed.
On my machine it started after an aptitude system upgrade in the
vicinity of a daylight saving time switch (well, maybe two weeks
after, I don't remember exactly, I just mention it in case it's
relevant.)
Cronjobs do not run, although cron reports that they have been run.
/var/log/messages e.g. contains the following entry:
Nov 30 07:30:01 abrasax /USR/SBIN/CRON[22574]: (friedel) CMD (/bin/bash
/home/friedel/bin/fetchstuff)
However the job in question did not run (it fetches some news and
cartoons for later perusal on the commuter train), no mail is sent and
the files on my harddisk did not change.
The crontab in question looks like this:
===
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l
# Rather start reauth.pl and kill it if no longer needed
#0 */4 * * * export KRB5CCNAME=`cat /var/secrets/friedel/refresh`;klist -s &&
kinit -R && aklog
# Fetch news and comics at 7:30 and 9:30 on weekdays, so that I can later call
unison on the laptop
# and take them on my trip
30 6 * * Mon-Fri rm -rf /home/friedel/fetched
30 7,9,11 * * * /bin/bash /home/friedel/bin/fetchstuff
# Every 3 days, at 11 o' clock create the xmltv listing for tvtime
9 11 */3 * * /home/friedel/bin/nxtvepg2tvtime.sh
# Check for loaned books
0 5 * * * /home/friedel/bin/bib.sh
#
===
It appears I can fix this situation briefly by issuing
"dpkg-reconfigure cron", at least if I include a test cronjob
afterwards, cron executes it. But a while afterwards (after the next
package installation?) cronjobs stop running again.
Cronjobs in the personal crontab of the root user don't run as well,
however the system cronjobs (/etc/cron.daily and company) are being
run (my logs are rotated etc.).
Kind regards
Friedel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.80 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.15.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 1.26-1 SELinux shared libraries
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii postfix [mail-transport-agen 2.2.4-1.0.1 A high-performance mail transport
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