[ELDK] crond not working

[Germano Barreiro]

Thanks, and you are right, my /etc/crontab missed that field.
However, even after following the steps you described here, it didnt
work for me yet. Something is for sure different in my system. It is a
pity that the crond program dont give much output for helping to find
out what it can be missing yet.

root at cbc:/root:# cat /root/mestre
#!/bin/sh
echo ===== Running ===== >>/tmp/logfile
date >>/tmp/logfile
root at cbc:/root:# service crond status
crond (pid 2046) is running...
root at cbc:/root:# ls /tmp/logfile
ls: cannot access /tmp/logfile: No such file or directory
root at cbc:/root:# date
Sat Feb 26 12:42:29 BRST 2000
root at cbc:/root:# ls -la /etc/crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268 Dec 31  1969 /etc/crontab
root at cbc:/root:# date
Sat Feb 26 12:44:43 BRST 2000
root at cbc:/root:# ls /tmp/logfile
ls: cannot access /tmp/logfile: No such file or directory


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:
> Germano Barreiro wrote:
>
>>
>> root at cbc:/root:# ls -la /etc/crontab
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 Dec 31  1969 /etc/crontab
>>
>> ... things dint work yet. This is not really a problem anymore since I
>> can use an user crontab for the purpose of my system, and I'm posting
>> this just as something that can be of general interest.
>
> It runs flawlessy, but you forget to add the "user" field in your
> crontab - check with your linux PC.
>
> I tried with:
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> #---------------------------------------------------------------
> # m  h  D  M  w  cmd
> #---------------------------------------------------------------
> */1  *  *  *  *  root  /root/mestre
>
> mestre is the example written by Wolfgang. Each minute you will get an
> entry in /tmp/logfile.
>
> Regards,
> Stefano Babic
>
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