I really appreciate you for the title "fixed" . Generally people do not take care or give feed back after the problem is solved. On 12/26/06, Bill Tangren <bjt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
inode0 wrote: > On 12/26/06, Bill Tangren <bjt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have one server on which it does not seem that the cron daemon is >> working. I >> use cron to do system backups and to rotate those backups (as well as >> quite a >> few other things). None of them seem to be happening. >> >> My question is, what do I look for in the logs to determine whether or >> not the >> cron daemon is running, and if not, why not? > > # chkconfig --list crond > crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > # service crond status > crond (pid 3311) is running... > > /var/log/cron may be helpful. > > John > var/log/cron was what I needed. This is the last entry in /var/log/cron: Dec 18 09:46:29 mach2 crond[3880]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) Dec 18 09:46:29 mach2 crond[3880]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/crontab) Dec 18 09:46:32 mach2 anacron[3944]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2006-12-18 Dec 18 09:46:33 mach2 anacron[3944]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) I googled on "BAD FILE MODE" and only came up with improper permissions on /etc/crontab. I had somehow set it to 700, when it needed to be 644. I think that fixed the problem. Thanks everyone! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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