cron not running

[James Riendeau]

You might want to use ntpd to sync the clock before cron starts if  
this turns out to be your problem:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- 
ntp.html

Once you have ntpd working, just put ntpd on the require line in the  
cron startup file,  /etc/rc.d/cron, to ensure that cron starts up  
after ntpd.

...or just buy a new motherboard battery.


James Riendeau
MMI Computer Support Technician
1300 University Ave
Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro
Madison, WI  53706

Phone: (608) 262-3351
After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696
Fax: (608) 262-8418
Email: jtriende at wisc.edu



On Dec 28, 2006, at 3:33 PM, freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org  
wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:07:23 -0600
> From: Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com>
> Subject: Re: cron not running
> To: "steve" <steve at digitalbluesky.net>,
> 	"freebsd-questions at freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Message-ID:
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> Check the clock.  Often older systems have dead batteries so the  
> clock is
> so far out of whack cron jobs don't run.
>
>          -Derek