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problem with crontab / slitaz 4.0

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• Started 12 years ago by Joerg
• Latest reply from mojo
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   Joerg
   

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   Hello,

   I use slitaz 4.0 and have a problem with crontab

   I have the file crontabs.1695 in the directory

   /var/spool/cron

   The contents of the file is:

   #crontab fuer tux25
   #Shell Variable fuer cron
   SHELL=/bin/sh
   #Path Variable fuer cron
   PATH=/bin:/sbin:/user/bin:/user/sbin
   #Minute Stunde Tag(Monat) Monat Tag(Woche) Kommando
   #(0-59) (0-23) (1-31) (1-12) (1-7 1=Mo)
   0 23 22 4 0 /home/tux25/play.sh

   Then I start the daemon crond on a terminal

   put the shell-script run not at the insert date and time

   What could be wrong ?

   so long joerg

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   You do know how to use cron right? In case you don't, cron runs the cronjob in crontab every X amount of time. That X amount of time is what you specified. Your script currently runs every 22nd of the 4th month at 23rd hour and 0 minutes. Also you made the day 0 instead of *

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Joerg
   

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   Hello @Trixar_za,

   thanks for the answer but the parameterization of the date time, etc., was known to me.

   Today I search through the log file . "Permission denied" the user tux25 had no authority to start crond .

   When I reinstalling the slitaz 4 , I noticed that the two directories are not created by default

   / cron / crontabs

   so long joerg

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   The user is given a false [OK] by start script that crond has started.
   # /etc/init.d/crond start
   Starting cron deamon: Crond... [ OK ]
   # pgrep cron returns nothing.
   The reason why cron won't start is in /var/log/dmesg:
   Apr 24 01:08:33 (none) cron.err crond[11501]: chdir(/var/spool/cron/crontabs):
   No such file or directory
   Crond won't start unless path /var/spool/cron/crontabs exists.
   # mkdir -p /var/spool/cron/crontabs

   # /etc/init.d/crond start
   Starting cron deamon: Crond... [ OK ]
   /var/log/dmesg:
   Apr 24 01:20:04 (none) cron.info crond[11528]: crond: crond (busybox 1.18.4) st
   arted, log level 8
   root@slitaz:/home/tux# pgrep cron
   11567
   Now cron is running.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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