[ale] RHL9 crond doesn't read in new crontab entries

[Benjie]

Just out of curiousity, does the shell script run when you start it
manually?  I once had the same issue,  and it was becuase I forgot to
set the executable bit on the script.  Have you also checked to see if
your script is in the path?

Benjie

On 8/21/06, Richard Kolkovich <sarumont at sigil.org> wrote:
> Jerry Yu wrote:
> > I used 'crontab -e'.  I am surprised too, since I never had to restart
> > crond to make new entries effective on Linux or Solaris. On SCO
> > openserver I had to run crontab against the new crontab file. But
> > that's a different story.
> > Actually I also had this on a RHAS 4.1 (CentOS 4.1) lab server which
> > was up 190 days only. 'rpm --verify vixie-cron-4.1-20_EL' only
> > reported some doc I purged. anoncron is there too.
>
> Very odd...anacron, IIRC, is not a cron daemon but rather something to
> make sure missed jobs get run (i.e.- shut a machine down for new
> hardware and it misses a cron job time).
>
> I have some RHEL/CentOS boxen around here...I will see if I can
> reproduce your issue.
>
> --
>
> Richard Kolkovich
>
> >
> > On 8/21/06, Richard Kolkovich <sarumont at sigil.org> wrote:
> >> Jerry Yu wrote:
> >>> I wrote a simple bash script then added it to the cron a RHL9 boxen.
> >>> Weird enough, it didn't take. Initially I troubleshooted my shell
> >>> script, you know, adding verbose output and such. The /var/log/cron
> >>> shows other cron jobs ran just fine. After pulling my hair a little,
> >>> it dawned on me that the new job didn't show in the /var/log/cron at
> >>> all. The fix, of course is to restart crond.
> >>>
> >>> Hmmm. I inherited the boxen a year ago. It has been up a bit over  500
> >>> days now. I never experienced such problem before with Solaris or
> >>> Linux. The symptoms repeated on another RHL9 boxen (up about 483
> >>> days). Any idea why?
> >> Initially, I would guess that it is a different cron daemon.  How are
> >> you adding these jobs?  Are you using crontab -e or editing /etc/crontab
> >> directly?
> >>
> >> I have never had to restart vixie-cron when adding a cronjob via either
> >> of those methods...
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Richard Kolkovich
>
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