On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:23 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > > > > Have you checked /var/log/cron ? There should be a RELOAD event logged > > within 1 minute after any change to /etc/crontab . > > > > -- > > Bob Nichols rnichols42@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Ah, I did not see that log file before. Maybe this will help my > situation: > > Jan 25 11:44:29 mythtv crond[25864]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) > Jan 25 11:44:29 mythtv crond[25864]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE > (/etc/crontab) > That seems related to the permissions of /etc/crontab. By default it is [jeff@goliath ~]$ ls -l /etc/crontab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Sep 20 16:58 /etc/crontab > James >
