Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread James Cloos
> "John" == John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have John> discovered that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being John> processed. Is this a known bug or does this version of John> cron not process that directory? Paul (Vixie) add

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
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, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 16 March 2007 11:06, John covici wrote: > > It does work for me, as mentioned in the docs. The caveat is that > > entries have to be entered in /etc/crontab syntax (ie, with an > > explicit username). > > And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they > are exe

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
on Friday 03/16/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Friday 16 March 2007 09:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:23:20 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered > > > that the files in /etc/cron.d are not

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 16 March 2007 09:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:23:20 -0400, John covici wrote: > > Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered > > that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being processed. Is this a > > known bug or does this version of cron not

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread Fedor
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:23:20AM -0400, John covici wrote: > Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered > that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being processed. Is this a > known bug or does this version of cron not process that directory? > > Any assistance would be a

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:23:20 -0400, John covici wrote: > Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered > that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being processed. Is this a > known bug or does this version of cron not process that directory? cron only processes /etc/crontab a

[gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being processed. Is this a known bug or does this version of cron not process that directory? Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it.