On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:09, Jeff Vian wrote: > 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 Yep, that's what I have. [root@mythtv etc]# pwd /etc [root@mythtv etc]# ls -l crontab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 323 Jan 25 16:32 crontab [root@mythtv etc]# I updated crontab slightly and restarted crond (just being impatient). I get nothing in the log at all now. James
