On Friday 05 November 2004 11:49, Joseph wrote: > Hi folks. > > This is probably very simple stuff, but I'm thoroughly confused. I > have an "off-the-shelf" Debian installation provided by my ISP. When > I do a ps -ef I get > (amongst other things) the following > root 195 1 0 Oct28 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/cron > All fine and normal so far.
> Now, according to the manual to have cron services I should be running > a cron daemon called crond. Lo and behold whereis returns > # whereis crond > crond: > Still normal. > Now, "cron" is not "crond" I apparently don't even have a "crond" > software installed. > I added a new line to crontab: > 0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi > Oops. Check out the man page for cron and especially crontab(5). > 1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed. It works > interactively, but there are no messages that would indicate that it > was executed by cron. What do I need to do, in order to have cron > execute send_hit_count.cgi? > Fix your crontab entry above to: 0 0 * * * /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi > 2. What is /usr/sbin/cron doing there? It seems to forever be in > memory, and I do occassionally receive CRON email messages with > reports, such as > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > .... > .... It is waiting until the time comes to start a job. If you happen to do a ps while a cron job is running, you'll see CROND. > 3. Do I need to install crond? > How do I do that? > It is installed, as evidenced by the cron messages you get. > 4. Should I get rid of the cron process documented above? > Nope. > TIA, > Joseph Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
