On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 05:53:32PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 02/22/2012 03:44 PM, rara8avis@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Try two digit numbers: 00 03 * * * and is your directory /etc/cron-daily or > > /etc/cron.daily? > > > > it's dcron, and on my box the updatedb file is in cron.daily: > > 17:48 providence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> l /etc/cron.daily/ > total 36 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 09:31 . > drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 12288 Feb 22 15:13 .. > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 01:01 logrotate > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 807 Mar 8 2010 man-db > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 115 Feb 8 07:20 pkgfile > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 96 Dec 3 19:14 shadow > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 654 Mar 26 2010 updatedb > > The root crontab file I have has the following ID definitions: > > <quote> > # root crontab > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! USE crontab -e INSTEAD > > # man 1 crontab for acceptable formats: > # <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <tags and command> > # <@freq> <tags and command> > > # SYSTEM DAILY/WEEKLY/... FOLDERS > @hourly ID=sys-hourly /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly > @daily ID=sys-daily /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily > @weekly ID=sys-weekly /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly > @monthly ID=sys-monthly /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.monthly > > # DCR specific root crontabs from '/root/cron/<filename> > 0 5 1 * * /root/cron/cron-monthly > 0 3 * * * /root/cron/cron-daily > </quote> > > I haven't messed with the file other than to add the last two lines. Do I need > to change the ID lines as well? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. You say you have /etc/cron.daily but your last two lines call cron-daily t
