Nick Jones wrote:
First off cron doesn't log for shit. Sendmail wasn't running so I
turned postfix on to see if mail shows up in root, it hasn't after 6
hours. I can see cron starting up in /var/log/messages, but that is
it. I simply want to place a script called backup under cron.daily.
Maybe you'll start your investigation by discarding the "-" at the
start of the run-crons command line in /etc/crontab. Then the
execution of run-crons is logged in syslog.
There you can see if it is called at all.
Then, run "sh -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons" to see what happens in
the run-cron script and what scripts are called when. Maybe the
check for ac-power is wrong, or whatever.
Up to 10.0, do *not* create the timestamp file in
/var/spool/cron/lastrun, to the contrary: _remove it_ for each and
every test anew. You might think that you can set the timestamp of
that file with touch, but that's not the case: run-cron uses its
ctime, not its mtime. So "ls -l" does not show you the time that
would be used.
From 10.1 onwards, there is a config variable in
/etc/sysconfig/cron that tells when cron.daily/* should be executed.
I hope that puts you on the right track.
Joachim
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