[wellylug] Cron troubles

[Cliff Pratt]

>
> Hi all
> I have some troubles to run my hourly scripts with the following crontab
>
> [root at rimutaka root]# more /etc/crontab
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/
>
> # run-parts
> 05 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly > /dev/null 2>&1
> 00 17 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily > /dev/null 2>&1
> 22 22 * * sat root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 21 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
>
>
> Each individual script can be run manually by command line and all are Ok
> (no
> errors reported)
>
> [root at rimutaka cron.hourly]# ll
> total 6
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          782 Feb  2 11:31 adminfiles*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          747 Feb  1 13:32 multidots*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1480 Feb  2 11:30 synchro*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          409 Jan  6 14:21 TIF_autorisation*
>
>
> Note that the scripts in cron.daily have the same owner and mod
>
> Any idea ???
> Thanks a lot
>
Do you see messages in the logs when the scripts run? Do they produce
anything at all? Does anything get mailed to root?

Cheers,

Cliff