i am running ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS and also seems to be affected by this
problem. It is a very strange bug indeed.
My script run fine manually.
Then I added it into the cron using crontab -e. Thing is, the script does get
executed but NOT completely. My script is as below :
#!/bin/bash
vpnip=$(ip a
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and have the same problem - cron doesn't run for
root, but runs fine for other users. I've tried with & without a
newline at the end of the file...
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root's crontab not running
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I have the same problem on Ubuntu Intrepid. Roots cron is not running
and I dont get any errors in my log. Here is my crontab. I edit the file
using sudo crontab -e -u root
# m h dom mon dow command
45 07 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now >> /home/poweruser/cron.log 2>&1
0/1 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate
>From what I can gather, you aren't using the correct syntax for the sudo
>crontab. Try using
sudo crontab -e -u root
and see if that fixes the problem. That "-u root" may be important.
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root's crontab not running
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(Oops, the path in the upper sudo crontab -l is different, but that's
because I forgot to erase the "e.famnit" part in the post)
Also, if I run the command "php -q /www/moodle/admin/cron.php >
/dev/null" with sudo or without it works, so it seems it's a sudo+cron
specific issue.
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root's cronta
I can confirm this bug on ubuntu-server 8.04.
$ uname -a
Linux moodle 2.6.24-16-virtual #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 14:32:04 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
We have a dedicated (virtual) moodle server which needs cron.php to be run
every 10 minutes.
If I add the line */10 * * * * php -q /www/moodle/admin/cron.php
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
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