On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 06:27 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > > A very quick test of cron. Put this line in /etc/crontab > > > > * * * * * root touch /root/crontest ; echo "crontest updated" > > > > Then look at the file to see the date//time stamp > > ls -l /root/crontest > > > > If cron is doing it's job the time stamp should get updated once per > > minute so it should stay current on date/time forever (until you remove > > the entry from /etc/crontab) You also should get an email to root once > > a minute with the echoed message. > > > > Note, you will want to remove that line from crontab very soon. > > > > Jeff, > > I get nothing. No /root/crontest file created and no messages in root's > mailbox. > > My crontab now looks like: > [root@mythtv ~]# cat /etc/crontab > SHELL=/bin/bash > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > MAILTO=root > HOME=/ > > # run-parts > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily > 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly > * * * * * root touch /root/crontest ; echo "crontest updated" > > Should I reinstall cron? Pardon for jumping in here, but have you restarted crond since you made the change to /etc/crontab? I am not sure if crond is going to automagically notice a change to the file or not.... So, to restart the cron daemon, you could do either a "service crond restart" or a "service crond reload". HTH, --Rob
