[CLUE-Tech] only one cron job running

Friedman, Jason Jason.Friedman at janus.com
Tue Dec 10 10:56:31 MST 2002


After re-installing my RedHat system only one of my crontab jobs is
running.  00-logwatch runs and mails its output to root.  Nothing else
happens that I can tell.  I would expect the remaining scripts in
/etc/cron.daily to run as well

root at abigail $ tail /var/log/cron
Dec 10 17:40:33 abigail crontab[7372]: (root) REPLACE (mailman)
Dec 10 17:40:33 abigail crontab[7372]: (root) END EDIT (mailman)
Dec 10 17:41:00 abigail crond[6020]: (mailman) RELOAD (cron/mailman)
Dec 10 17:45:00 abigail CROND[7389]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg
/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg)
Dec 10 17:46:00 abigail crond[6020]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
Dec 10 17:47:00 abigail crond[6020]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
Dec 10 17:47:00 abigail CROND[7398]: (root) CMD (run-parts
/etc/cron.daily)
Dec 10 17:47:03 abigail anacron[7556]: Updated timestamp for job
`cron.daily' to 2002-12-10
Dec 10 17:50:00 abigail CROND[7779]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg
/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg)
Dec 10 17:50:00 abigail CROND[7780]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)

root at abigail $ ll /etc/cron.daily
total 68
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           28 Dec  9 05:03 00-logwatch ->
../log.d/scripts/logwatch.pl
-rwx------    1 root     root          135 Dec  9 05:03 00webalizer
-rwx------    1 root     root          276 Dec  9 05:03 0anacron
-rwx------    1 root     root          271 Dec  9 05:03
backup_purge.cron
-rwx------    1 root     root           58 Dec  9 05:03 bad_logins
-rwx------    1 root     root          213 Dec  9 05:03 disk_backup
-rwx------    1 root     root          123 Dec  9 05:03 inn-cron-expire
-rwx------    1 root     root           51 Dec  9 05:03 logrotate
-rwx------    1 root     root          371 Dec  9 05:03
mail_permissions.cron
-rwx------    1 root     root          418 Dec  9 05:03 makewhatis.cron
-rwx------    1 root     root          178 Dec  9 05:03 ntp.cron
-rwx------    1 root     root           58 Dec  9 05:03 resource_usage
-rwx------    1 root     root          104 Dec  9 05:03 rpm
-rwx------    1 root     root          132 Dec  9 05:03 slocate.cron
-rwx------    1 root     root           97 Dec  9 05:03 slrnpull-expire
-rwx------    1 root     root          100 Dec  9 05:03 tetex.cron
-rwx------    1 root     root          193 Dec  9 05:03 tmpwatch
-rwx------    1 root     root          896 Dec  9 05:03 tripwire-check

root at abigail $ cat /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
47 17 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 8 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 8 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg




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