[wellylug] cron usage

Tim Nicholas tim at nicholas.net.nz
Fri May 21 09:42:39 NZST 2004


Make sure that the first script (in /etc/cron.daily) conforms to the 
naming rules used by run-parts.
 From the man page (man 8 run-parts)

"run-parts runs a number of scripts or programs found in a single 
directory  directory.   Filenames should  consist entirely of upper and 
lower case letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens.  Subdirectories of 
directory and files with other names will be silently ignored."


So basically, make sure you don't have (for example) a scripts called 
"script.sh".

Tim


On 21/05/04 09:11, E.Chalaron wrote:
> Hi there
> It seems I have a trouble running a cron.daily directory. Probably straight 
> forward for someone used to use this
> Let's call a couple od script in a very simple way... to start with :-)
> 
> In /etc/cron.daily I put :
> script1_call
> 
> which contains :
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/script1
> 
> I made sure that :
> crond is running
> script is calling script2
> script1 and script2 are root:root 755 in /usr/bin
> 
> --> Nothing happened despite I restarted crond yesterday.
> 
> I had a look in /var/spool/cron -> nothing
> 
> Should I use 
> #!/bin/bash
> su - /usr/bin/script1
> 
> or chang something in
> # run-parts
> 02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 
> Anything I can do to log the in(activity) of crond ?
> Or did I miss something ? I guess it is very likely to be a right issue than 
> anything else but I am getting confused about it.
> Thanks a lot
> Edouard
> lost as usual
> 
> 


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