cron not working till 28/08/07
Bill Vermillion
bv at wjv.com
Wed Sep 19 18:24:08 PDT 2007
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 21:46 , after knocking over a stack of
dishes on the heat sink freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org
wondered out loud about:
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:36:07 -0000 (GMT)
> From: "DSA - JCR" <juancr at dsa.es>
> Subject: Cron not working till 28/08/07
> Hi all !!
> I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups.
> All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped
> for some reason, I don't know why.
> I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also with daily,
> weekly and monthly reports, but suddenly all stopped (I don't
> receive nothing in my email).
> Can you help me?
I had the same problem. It was after I did an upgrade.
I found that /etc/crontab had gotten copied somehow to
/var/cron/tabs/root.
I did get errors of 'root not found'. [or similar].
Check to see if that hasn't happened to you.
By any chance had you performed a 'crontab -e' and screwed
things up and deleted the cron.
/etc/crontab runs the daily scripts you should be getting.
Having that also in /var/cron/tabs made my daily messages go
away.
Bill
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