on Friday 03/16/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:06:53 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they > > are executed correctly and this is why I asked the question. > > Ignore my previous reply, whatever I was on, it had insufficient > caffeine :( > > cron.d does indeed work here, provided the lines have exactly the same > format as in crontab; e.g. "tail -n 1 /etc/crontab >/etc/cron.d/test" > works as it should. > > Are you setting the execute bit on the files in cron.d? In the past, I've > found that this prevents their being run.
Indeed the user exec bit is on, didn't know that it made any difference, but I will try with it off. Yep, that did it -- thanks much guys. Never heard of that before. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list