Hello, I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron:
1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file and included the line 0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc However this is never executed. Other than editing this file, is there something else that I have to do? 2. User crontab files are also ignored. I use crontab -e to create the files and I've tried with and without /var/spool/cron/allow (with valid user entries). I've checked the system time, is ok, and I even re-installed the cron debian package. After editing /etc/crontab I rebooted my PC (a la Win95) but nothing changed. I've used cron before and never found any problems. I tend then to believe this is not a problem with cron but with something else, however I can't figure out what. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you, P. Sanchez ---------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
