The output of 'the ps ax | grep crond' is just showing you the grep command running, and not the actual cron daemon. I'm sure I've seen some systems where cron is not running as a daemon, but I may be wrong, and this may have been a very long time ago... But if you're getting emails about cron, it must be processing your cronjobs.
Your cronjob needs to contain the full path to the script - at the moment it looks like this has /backup.day1.sh - which I think may need to be /backup/day1.sh based on other comments you've made. Yes you need to change the permissions. I presume these jobs are running under root's crontab, so (as root) you could chmod 700 /backup/day*.sh to change them all to read/write/execute for root, and with no permission for users in root's group, or other users of the system. VNC won't be making any difference at least :-) On 5 October 2010 15:13, Tim <xendis...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2010 19:15:06 Stuart Sears wrote: > > On 05/10/10 18:49, John Cooper wrote: > > > On 05/10/10 18:25, Vic wrote: > > > > [snip excellent advice] > > > > >>> How do I get cron to run them and where do I find any logs files that > > >>> may > > >>> point to what is going wrong? > > > > show us the output of > > crontab -l > > > > as the user who owns these scripts? > > plus > > > > ls -l /path/to/scripts > > > > >> Check root's email. cron can mail anyone you tell it to, but if you > > >> haven't specified someone (and I doubt that you have), root tends to > get > > >> the reports. > > > > well, only if the jobs are in root's crontab. > > ...which is just plain wrong - that's what /etc/cron.d is for (okay, > > that's a matter of opinion and a little off-track for this) > > > > [...snip other excellent advice...] > > > > I'm not sure exactly what webmin does with cron. > > > > But setting it up manually could be achieved with a bit of advice (and > > it's a good learning experience too) > > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto > > > > (while I don't agree with all of it, it's mostly pretty good) > > > > Regards, > > > > Stuart > > OK in no particular order I tried the commands suggested with the following > results > > ps ax | grep crond > 4010 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto crond (crond was written in > red typeface) > > So that tell me crond is running > > crontab -l > > 0 0 * * 1 /backup.day1.sh # Day 1 backup > (the same was repeated for each of the other 4 scripts) > > This tell me that at midnight on days 1 to 5 the script will run, yes? > > ls -l /backup > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 357 2010-10-05 20:43 day1 > (the same was repeated for each of the other 4 scripts) > > This tell that root owns the folder and each of the 5 scripts there in, I > think > I may need to change some of the permission so only root can run and write? > > In regards to webmin, it just make it easy for me to administrate the > control of > the server as opposed to cli > > I looked in mail and yes there were mails regarding cron there. Basicly it > is > saying /backups/day1 file not found So the problem is how do I tell it to > chnage to the backup folder and then run the script? > > I should point out (if it makes any difference) that I am access the server > via > vnc > > Tim > > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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