| sean finney on 5 Jul 2010 10:53:07 -0700 |
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:25:46AM -0700, Edmond Rodriguez wrote: > Why is the word "root" in there? on most linux systems /etc/crontab also contains the user as which to run the cronjob. about the problem in this case, the '*system*' messages just mean that the cron daemon as seen that the file has been changed and is re-reading it. nothing jumped out at me as particularly wrong in the stuff you posted, you could try restarting the cron service just in case it somehow wedged itself. you could also bump up the log level for cron (-L 2 in /etc/default/cron) to see if it's actually executing the commands in question (there should be a second END log entry after execution). also, double check that the crontab file ends with newline, sometimes that can cause problems too. sean Attachment:
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