On 11/26/07, Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've just installed a system with Debian Etch 4.0 and the crontabs which are > edited by users will not be executed. > > The cronjobs added by the root user, "crontab -e" will are executed as > expected. Jobs added by a regular user, also using "crontab -e" are not > executed. For testing puposes I just added a simple: > > 0-59 * * * * /bin/date >> /home/jan/date.txt > > And for some reason it doesn't run. When I save the crontab I get the message > "crontab: installing new crontab". >
Make sure that the last line of the crontab ends in a newline. Cron will silently ignore lines without one. I keep a comment as the last line to avoid this problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
