cron.daily is not running ???

[Damien Hull]

I think I have the problem fixed. LogWatch showed up in my in-box today.

What happened? Well, I uninstalled some software. However, it didn't 
remove the script inside /etc/cron.daily. I removed it and now it works.

I'm not totally sure that was the problem. All I can really say is that 
it's working now.

Luis wrote:
> 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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