On Friday 16 March 2007 11:06, John covici wrote:
> > It does work for me, as mentioned in the docs. The caveat is that
> > entries have to be entered in /etc/crontab syntax (ie, with an
> > explicit username).
>
> And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they
> are executed correctly and this is why I asked the question.
Ah...well, then I'm afraid I can't help you, since it works for me.
I tested it with a simple entry like this:
# cat /etc/cron.d/testcrond
52 10 * * * root /usr/bin/touch /root/testfile
and the file "testfile" appeared as expected at 10:52.
This is my version of vixie-cron:
# eix vixie-cron
[I] sys-process/vixie-cron
Available versions: 4.1-r9
Installed versions: 4.1-r9(13:00:45 01/09/06)(-debug pam -selinux)
Homepage: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/
Description: Paul Vixie's cron daemon, a fully featured
crond implementation
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