Crontab Doesn't Work

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Crontab Doesn't Work

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forrestmage View Member Profile	May 5 2008, 05:22 PM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 15-April 08 Member No.: 203,181	So I put my script file (sqlbu.sh) into cron-daily and it didn't work. So I edited /etc/crontab to look like this. I have my script sitting in cron-daily as well as in /etc and I set the times for a few minutes ahead of where I was at the time- I even restarted cron. Neither my script or the testfile creation worked. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron \|\| ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron \|\| ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron \|\| ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) 10 40 * * * root /etc/sqlbu.sh 15 11 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/sqlbu.sh 47 12 * * * root /usr/bin/touch /tmp/testfile.txt ps aux \| grep cron give me this root 7312 0.0 0.0 22120 1072 ? Ss 12:41 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 7403 0.0 0.0 5120 820 pts/1 R+ 16:18 0:00 grep cron so it appears to be running. What am I missing? The script runs fine manually, btw. This is Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon fyi and there is not a cron.log in /var/log or anywhere else for that matter. Nothing in /var/log/messages regarding cron.... I just don't know... This post has been edited by forrestmage: May 5 2008, 05:23 PM

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