Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 02:21:15 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> #min hr dom month dow command
>
> SHELL=/bin/bash
>
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/
> daddy/bin
>
> HOME=/home/walterh
>
>  00  02 *   *     *   /home/walterh/exports.sh
>
>  05  02 *   *     *   /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh
>
>  10  02 *   *     *   /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh
>
>  15  02 *   *     *   /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh
>
> $
>
> So what is wrong? Why is nothing happening? I have consulted the handbook
> but see nothing.
>

You really have bash in /bin ?  Are your scripts executable?  What does
/var/log/cron say?

-- 
Adam Vande More


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