Why are cron.hourly files not running?

[Joel Goguen]

Try this in your test script:

#!/bin/bash
set > /etc/cron.hourly/testing

That first line marks this as a shell script.  All the other cron.X
files are scripts too.  I tried this and the file was properly
created.

HTH

On 7/15/07, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I have various files in /etc/cron.hourly and /etc/cron.daily that are
> not running.
>
> I just tested this by placing a simple executable file in cron.hourly
> that runs the bash built-in executable set and directs it to a file
> but the file is never created.
>
> What could I be doing wrong?  Should the owner be the user admin?
>
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 30 2007-07-15 16:20 set-test
>
> I also tried changing the permissions to rwxrwxr-- like most of the
> items in /etc/cron.daily which came from the original Kubuntu install
> but it still doesn't run.
>
> Hope someone can suggest what is going wrong.
>
> Below are the technical details of how I tested and the entries in syslog.
>
>
>
>
> root at kinda cron.hourly # cat set-test
> set >/etc/cron.hourly/testing
>
> ps ax reports that cron is running.
>
> root at kinda log # tail syslog
> Jul 15 17:17:01 kinda /USR/SBIN/CRON[1176]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
> run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
>
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