[PLUG] crontab won't work

[Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org>]

I installed Debian stable on an old system I had lying around to be used as an 
rsync backup server.

My backup routine is called as a cron job fron /etc/crontab.  Oddly, none of 
the things I've entered into crontab execute.   I can execute the scripts fine 
outside of crontab, but nothing seems to work from within it.

For example, I added this line to test if it was working:

26 12   * * *   root mkdir /test1

This should have created a new directory at 12:26 PM.  it didn't.

Checking syslog, I see this weird message:

Jul  5 12:17:03 Backup /USR/SBIN/CRON[7125]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts 
--report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jul  5 12:24:01 Backup /usr/sbin/cron[3363]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
Jul  5 12:25:01 Backup /usr/sbin/cron[3363]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
Jul  5 12:26:01 Backup /usr/sbin/cron[3363]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)




Anybody have any ideas what this means?




BTW, here is my complete /etc/crontab

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
17 *    * * *   root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --
report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --
report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --
report /etc/cron.monthly )
#



# Run the backup routine every night at 12:01 AM
01 00   * * *   root    /etc/rsync/BackupDisks.py




26 12   * * *   root mkdir /test1







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