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Saurabh Barve wrote:
| Message: 14 | Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:00:54 -0400 | From: James Kosin <jkosin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Subject: Re: cron jobs not being run | To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> | Message-ID: <428B66B6.20601@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed |
| Saurabh Barve wrote: | | | Hi, | | | | I am running FC2 here. There are a number of cron jobs in | | /etc/cron.daily - makewhatis, webalizer, | | chkrootkit,freshclam,squirrelmail, tetex, yum, etc. However, when I | | see the Cron report, only the yum jobs is being reported as run. | | Some of the cron jobs, the chkrootkit one for example, are set to | | send an e-mail to the root account, but I never get one. | | | | Why am I not seeing any reports/logs being generated from these cron | | jobs? | | | | Saurabh. | | Hi, | | Most cron jobs only produce output if there is a problem that needs | attention. What happens, is that stdoutput and stderror are directed | to an email. If the output is blank, ie. no output is generated by | the command, then cron disregards sending an email. | | James
Well, that is strange because the clamscan cron job for my machine is set to scan the mail folders of all users for all users, and e-mail output to root: - --- clamscan -r /var/spool/mail 2>&1 | mail -s "ClamScan Output" root - ---
and I don't get any reports in my cron logs. However, when I run clamscan on the same directory on the command line, it shows 4 files as being infected. That is a problem that needs attention. That is an output that I would like to know.
Maybe something wrong with the command in the cron file?
Saurabh.
- ------ I just tried the command from the command prompt and it works ok.
Try adding it.... like this. crontab -e
add the appropriate information and save making the command to execute only ~ /usr/bin/clamscan -r /var/spool/mail no redirects, etc.
James
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