Topic: possibly crontab error in ver 4.12 ???

[Peter Hollandare]

Are the crontab entries broken in e-smith 4.12 ??????

I have successfully made templates, expanded them, and new settings is made
in /etc/crontab

But they DONT WORK - So is it broken ??

what im using

0,15,25,35,45,55 * * * *

[Dan Brown]

No trouble that I know of (though I'd probably put */10 in the first field).  Have you restarted crond?

[Peter Hollandare]

Thanks Dan for answering so quick. I have now changed it to look like this

*/10 * * * * / and made the following (dunno if this is the right way todo) crontab -u root crontab if not, please let me know the right way.

When i do that, it works oki - before i tested to see if crontab was really doing anything by crontab -l, and it came up somthing, like there where no crontabs running atm. I also tried as a "normal user", to add a crontab, but with no success. Complains that the "normal" user has no priviliges or something.

Running crontab jobs as root, is this safe?

Did i mention i love e-smith so much, i havent change or upgraded - god this must be the most flawless software i have been running

[Peter Hollandare]

getting a msg every hour now saying command not found, getting slight annoying.

Anyone knows why??

[Des Dougan]

Peter Hollandare wrote:
>
> getting a msg every hour now saying command not found,

Is the file to be executed in your path? I had a problem with cron.d where I had to add the path statement to the crontab (in standard format, e.g. PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin)

Des Dougan

[Peter Hollandare]

Des, yes the dir is in PATH statement.

To be more clear this is the error msg.

1. Subject : Cron root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly

2. the msg : /bin/bash: root: command not found

Only thing i added is what i wrote in a earlier msg. I made a new template, expanded the template with success (the thing added in crontab actually works and runs every 10min).

Even rebooted the computer, but the annoying msg comes there every hour.

[Peter Hollandare]

Template for crontab in /etc/ looks like this, if anyone knows.

#------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It is updated automatically by the
# e-smith server and gateway software. Instead, modify the source
# template in the /etc/e-smith/templates directory. For more
# information, see http://www.e-smith.org.
#
# copyright (C) 1999, 2000 e-smith, inc.
#------------------------------------------------------------

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root

# run-parts

01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly


*/10 * * * * /home/yabba/pisg-0.33/pisg.pl --silent



#------------------------------------------------------------
# TEMPLATE END
#------------------------------------------------------------

[Des Dougan]

I think (haven't gone back to check the man pages) that you need the username in your statement, as in the ones above (i.e. they run as root user).


Des Dougan