I had create a directory under /etc called cron.night_backup
Inside this directory, i copied the script.
I added a line in /etc/crontab like this:
42 11 * * 1-5 root run-parts /etc/cron.night_backup
The script is executed by cron without problems when time comes.
¿?¿?
David Ballester Montolio
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Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com
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Thanks for your answer Tom.
This morning, i deleted the offending tmp.<number> file that /var/log/cron
claimed as ORPHAN, stopped crond an started again. Now i don't have ORPHAN
warning, but when times come, cron doesn't execute the script.
I used crontab -u root -e to force cron to point root user, but nothing
changed.
FYI ( I you can help me a little bite ) If I put the same script under
/etc/cron.hourly, then the script is executed correctly every hour ¿?
Thanks again
David Ballester Montolio
Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com
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No passwd entry.
Check the pass word files involved.
Local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow as well as any invoked directly
or implied in the script.
Include interaction with stuff like the MAILTO environment variable in
crontab.
Perhaps you placed a file in /var/spool/cron for which there is no user
name
in the passwd file.
if (strcmp(fname, "*system*") && !(pw = getpwnam(uname))) {
/* file doesn't have a user in passwd file.
*/
log_it(fname, getpid(), "ORPHAN", "no passwd entry");
goto next_crontab;
}
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