Cron not running

[Phil]

On 30/07/13 16:55, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> I cannot get any cron jobs to run. My first guess was that crond has not
>> been started but that could be wrong because "sudo start crond" results in
>> an "unknown job" error.
>>
>> So, what could the problem be?
>
> It could be cron not running, but that's quite easy to verify using ps(1).

Thanks Luca,

Is this what you meant?

phil at Asus:~$ ps
   PID TTY          TIME CMD
  1968 pts/6    00:00:01 bash
25818 pts/6    00:00:00 ps

I don't think cron is running or is not available for user phil.

I have a very simple test shell script that does run from the command line.

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Regards,
Phil