On Sun 17 May 2020 at 11:21:11 (-0600), ghe wrote: > On 5/17/20 10:42 AM, ghe wrote: > > Buster, Supermicro desktop > > > > Cron jobs (some of them) don't show up in root's email. > > > > I admin 2 domains -- one on Squeeze, one on Buster. My Squeeze > > cron results show up fine; Buster's don't. I've reinstalled the > > Buster jobs. I've copyNpasted them from the Squeeze crontab. Both > > logwatch results show up (part of /etc/crop.daily). It seems that > > that the jobs I enter manually don't show up. They didn't use to > > do that. > > > > > > Here's my crontab on Buster: > > > > root@sbox:~# cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > > # (/tmp/crontab.93Jh1O/crontab installed on Sun May 17 10:11:58 2020) > > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) > > 5 1 * * * /bin/cat /proc/mdstat > > 10 1 * * * test -x /usr/sbin/apticron && /usr/sbin/apticron --cron > > #apticron > > > > (The date is a few minutes ago because I removed a dup of logwatch.) > > > > > > And on Squeeze: > > > > root@rrserv:~# cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > > # (/tmp/crontab.bgZABv/crontab installed on Wed May 13 12:48:16 2020) > > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) > > 2 1 * * * /bin/cat /proc/mdstat > > > > > > Here's what happens if I manually run one of them (Buster): > > > > root@sbox:# /bin/cat /proc/mdstat > > Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] > > [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] > > md0 : active raid1 sdc1[1] sda1[0] > > 488253440 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] > > bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk > > > > unused devices: <none> > > > > > > I have a feeling that I've done something trivially wrong. But I > > can't find it. Thoughts?
I always examine my cron with crontab -l rather than just catting some random file. Cheers, David.