On Monday 27 November 2006 05:38, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > >I didn't get any mail from amanda this morning, and no record in the log >of the script having been run at 1:01 this morning. So I called up >kcron, highlighted the command line, pulled down the edit menu and told >it to run it. It appears to be running as expected although the shell >where I launched kcron reported the root catcher exit of the first call >in that script, a call to amcheck. > >This should not be, and should be bugzilla'd against kcron because it > did not become amanda before launching the script, and parts of amanda > that the script calls will fail because of that. Which bugzilla do I > use? > >But the real question is: Why didn't it run it at the set time this >morning? Addendum: This is turning into a real puzzle. The above run thoroughly mucked the owner:group of quite a bit of the backup system, so I've been 20 minutes or so with chown fixing those again. I have also adjusted the launch time in amanda's crontab to just a couple of minutes in the future, 3 times now, and 3 times cron has not run the script when that walltime came by. Is there something basicly wrong with this that I can't see? ---------- [root@coyote Mail]# su amanda -c "crontab -l" PATH=/GenesAmandaHelper-0.5:$PATH # 20 8 * * * /GenesAmandaHelper-0.5/backup.sh # This file was written by KCron. Copyright (c) 1999, Gary Meyer # Although KCron supports most crontab formats, use care when editing. # Note: Lines beginning with "#\" indicates a disabled task. ----------- I've even changed the owner:group of the /var/spool/cron/amanda file to match the one in the old FC2/var/spool/cron dir, also with no apparent effect. I'm out of ideas. I just set it up to 8:33 and restarted crond. Thats 15 seconds in the future. And its again simply ignored???? I added a 0 so its 08 in the hour column and set it 2 minutes into the future, still no action, zip, nada. Is there any way to turn up crond's debugging output? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
