My first inclination is that it's a file permissions error with crontab, where the server can't read it because of access issues. That's what happened to me once, though knowing what to change it to, I forget.
DeltaQuad English Wikipedia Administrator On 09/06/2012 12:02, Hersfold wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having some strange issues with my crontab. I've got this line in > there, which has worked for months: > 0 */2 * * * cronsub -s HersfoldArbClerkBot % java -jar > HersfoldArbClerkBot.jar > HersfoldArbClerkBot.out > > Last night I replaced the jar in question with a new version (same > name, location, etc.); since then, it doesn't appear that it's been > running or even attempting to run. Usually when it fails to run I get > an email, or at the very least something should be entered in that > .out file; unfortunately I got no emails, and the file didn't exist, > yet my bot didn't make any edits until I started it manually a short > while ago. It should have run just now at 16:00 UTC, but again, no > dice. Is there something wrong with cron where it's stopped > functioning correctly? > > ---- > User:Hersfold > hersfoldw...@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
