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

[Jerry Yu]

Benjie I went down the path of troubleshooting the shell script, to no
avail.  After I restarted crond,  it starts to kick.
Richard, I'd be really surprised that you could re-produce it.  I was
merely curious if anyone is ever as lucky as I was to actually run
into it.

On 8/21/06, Benjie <benjie.godfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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