cron.daily is not running ???

[Luis]

Things to try:

$> cat /etc/crontab
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
# This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
17 *    * * *   root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
--report /etc/cron.daily
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
--report /etc/cron.weekly
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
--report /etc/cron.monthly
#

ls -l /etc/cron.daily

should show files whose name is in the form: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]*
and whose executable bit is set! very important.

In other words, they start with a letter (lower or upper case)
followed by more letters and numbers, dashes or underscores... no dots
(.) in their names and other things that is not allowed by LSB... (I
can't recall the full list now but to be safe, use names that follow
that regex).

Hope that helps
On 7/29/06, Damien Hull <dhull at digitaloverload.net> wrote:
> boricua wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:41:53 -0800
> > Damien Hull <dhull at digitaloverload.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Is there any reason why cron.daily wouldn't run? I'm using Dapper server
> >> (LAMP). I installed a lot of software. Any one of them could be causing
> >> a problem.
> >>
> >> I should mention that cron.hourly works. Which means part of cron is
> >> working.
> >>
> >
> >
> > how do you know its not  working?
> > what does the log show
> >
> >
> It shows that it's not running. I setup /var/log/cron.log and cron.daily
> isn't there for today. It ran on the 28th of this month but that's it.
> I've got other systems running Ubuntu Dapper and they work just fine.
>
> I noticed that something was wrong after I installed LogWatch. I got an
> email once and that was it. That's when I started tracking down the
> problem. Which has lead me to cron.daily. Again, it's not running.
>
>
>
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