Sorry if this is a bit long, but I wanted to give as much information
as I could and hope someone can help.
On a new installation of Kubuntu 22.04, cron jobs are not running and
this is driving me crazy.
The cron daemon is running
shoshana@shoshana:~/Desktop$ pgrep cron
827
I thought there mig
Try to remove the word "root"
אורי
u...@speedy.net
On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 5:18 PM Shlomo Solomon
wrote:
> Sorry if this is a bit long, but I wanted to give as much information
> as I could and hope someone can help.
>
>
> On a new installation of Kubuntu 22.04, cron jobs are not running and
> t
No - that did not change anything and, in any case, as I wrote, that
exact line (including root) works on another Kubuntu 22.04 machine.
It also worked on Kubuntu 20.04 before I did a new install of 22.04
On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 17:41:05 +0200
אורי wrote:
> Try to remove the word "root"
> אורי
> u
If I had to hazard a guess, it has something to do with systemd (the
usual suspect)
What does `|sudo systemctl status cron` return?
If that shows the service being disabled or stopped, you'll of course
need to run `||sudo systemctl enable cron` to get it going at every boot
and |`|sudo system
THANK YOU
Your guess was wrong, but sudo systemctl status cron (which I did not
think of before) helped me find the problem.
The service WAS running, but the output of that command showed that the
owner of /etc/crontab was not root.
A stupid mistake on my part - I copied the file from ano
