On Tuesday 19 April 2005 09:09, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:53:58AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > I have a Redhat 9 machine and suddently, for unknown reason, the daily > > cron job in /etc/cron.daily just stopped working. The users cron job are > > still being run fine, and crond service is running. It's just the scripts > > in /etc/cron.daily is never run again, ie. logwatch is stopped sending me > > email, logrotate stopped rotating logs, etc. > > /etc/cron.daily is called from /etc/crontab. Make sure that this file > hasn't been changed. Ahhh.... that's it !!! My /etc/crontab is all wrong. It contains a 'custom' cron job for root that's supposed to be in /var/spool/cron/root. I am not surehow this happened though, for as far as I can remember, I usually use kcron to edit crontabs. I must have not had my morning coffee when I did this.... . I guess I am going to trace this from my backups..... Thank you ! RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D(+) G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
