Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:27:46 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 7.6.2011 17:25, Camaleón kirjoitti: >> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> >>> aptitude update && aptitude upgade works fine (this is lenny, where >>> aptitude is the better). >> >> I'm afraid cron-apt uses

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
7.6.2011 17:25, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> 7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: > >>> How does your cron-apt sources list file look like? Have you try by >>> setting another package repository mirrors, different than the current >>> ones

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: >> How does your cron-apt sources list file look like? Have you try by >> setting another package repository mirrors, different than the current >> ones? What does "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:16:20 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have >> cron-apt running. >> >> The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) >> >> System Events >> =-=-=-=-=-=-= >> Jun 7 04:59:30

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:16:20 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have > cron-apt running. > > The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) > > System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch > http://f

[Solved] Re: Problems with cron

1997-12-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, Cron is now working. The problem was (is) what I consider to be a bug which I'd call "Inconsistent behavior of crontab and cron with regard to the newline character". 1. When using "crontab -e" to edit the user crontab file, crontab refuses to accept a newline character (pressing return

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-18 Thread Dominic Davidson
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 02:38:00PM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > I wrote my message from the top of my head. I veryfied later and the entry > is actually > > 0 8,12,16, * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc ---^^^ This wou

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Pedro Sanchez" wrote: >I was not aware of the syntax "crontab ". What is "filename"? >/var/spool/cron/crontab/sanchez (or something like that)? I'm not >in my computer right now, I'll try tonight to see what happens. crontab copies the contents of over the current user's crontab file, des

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I'm trying the /etc/crontab because the user's crontab files are not executed. When they work (I hope they will!), then this fetchmail job will be executed there. I tried creating the user crontabs both as superuser (crontab -u sanchez -e) and from the user account (crontab -e). There's no differen

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I wrote my message from the top of my head. I veryfied later and the entry is actually 0 8,12,16, * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc Anyway, it still doesn't work. P. Sanchez -- In message "Problems with Cron", [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, Dec 17, 1997

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Sten Anderson
"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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