Why are cron.hourly files not running?

[Larry Alkoff]

Joel Goguen wrote:

I am still unable to run a cron script in /etc/cron.hourly.

This simple script won't run:


root at kinda cron.hourly # ll settime.cron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107 2007-07-16 14:00 settime.cron
The permissions of 755 should allow root to write and world to execute.


root at kinda cron.hourly # cat settime.cron
#!/bin/sh
/bin/echo "fixing to run hourly settime.ipcop" >>/var/log/syslog
exit

The only thing this script can do at this point is echo some words to 
/var/log/syslog, but it does not.

I can see that the cron.hourly line in /etc/crontab does not invoke 
anacron.  Could there be some completely different mechanism at work for 
  cron.hourly files?

What are these entries in /etc/syslog trying to tell me?
Could the printcap entries have something to do with simply writing an 
echo statement to a file?

Jul 16 14:20:01 kinda smbd[12172]: [2007/07/16 14:20:01, 0] 
printing/pcap.c:pcap_cache_reload(159)
Jul 16 14:20:01 kinda smbd[12172]:   Unable to open printcap file 
/etc/printcap for read!
Jul 16 14:20:01 kinda smbd[12172]: [2007/07/16 14:20:01, 0] 
printing/pcap.c:pcap_cache_reload(159)
Jul 16 14:20:01 kinda smbd[12172]:   Unable to open printcap file 
/etc/printcap for read!
Jul 16 14:20:01 kinda /USR/SBIN/CRON[7528]: (root) CMD (   cd / && 
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)




Larry

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