> -----Original Message----- > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:40 AM > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Tom Scrape wrote: > > > I have a cron job that's not running when I think it should > > be... that is, it's not running at all. > > > > My /etc/cron.daily contains the problem file: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cron.daily# ll pflogsumm-daily.cron > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 354 2007-06-06 08:49 pflogsumm-daily.cron > > > > This file contains: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cron.daily# cat pflogsumm-daily.cron > > #!/bin/bash > > # > > # 20061213 Cron to gather stats from mail logs and email to admin. > > # Pflogsumm can also be run by itself and/or with many > > # other options. Check the man page. > > # 20070104 Updated path after move to new server. > > /usr/sbin/pflogsumm -d yesterday /var/log/mail.log 2>&1 > |mail -s "`uname -n` > > daily mail stats" postmaster > > > > > > The problem is that this job never runs. > > > > > > > Cron.log shows nothing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# cat cron.log |grep pflogsumm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# > > > > > > The command works as expected when copying and pasting to > the command line. > > Furthermore, this script worked fine on the previous FC5 > machine (the only > > difference being the name of the log file. > > > > I just sent this server live a few days ago, so I've been > running the script > > manually until I figure it out, but I'm having no luck. > Any idea what I'm > > overlooking here? Is it a Debian peculiarity that I've not > yet discovered, or > > am I more generally confused? Thanks for any direction. > > > > > > --T > > try renaming the file pflogsumm-daily.cron to pflogsumm-daily-cron, > periods aren't allowed or add the --lsbsysinit to the > /etc/crontab file. > > from man run-parts: > If the --lsbsysinit option is not given then the names must consist > entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, underscores, and > hyphens. > >
Blast! Had to be a technicality, didn't it? Many thanks. That should save me a little effort again. --T -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
