On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:25:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > > > But I did enable a cron log, which for some reason was disabled on my > > system. I'll have to wait a week to see what that log has to say. I > > don't know how to set its level, or if enabling the cron log captures > > all message from the cron daemon. > > Well?
The message in the log appears normal because in fact a backup did occur yesterday. I suspect the fix was because I did this: # /etc/init.d/cron restart I had previously not known to do this because I don't believe man crontab mentions it and because my prior unorthodox method to initiate the command did not require editing the crontab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150720103542.gb23...@engels.historicalmaterialism.info
