crond with slackware 9.0 question

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi adam.

Actually, the new cron preserved root's original crontab file.

I thought that it wasn't running because I had it set to touch a file in /tmp, and that file wasn't being touched.
Also, I had brought the log level down to 8, but there was nothing in the logs.

However, I've found out since then that my daily log rotation, and emailing of system stats to root goes just as before, so it does appear to be running,
though it seems to show no readily detectable sign of that.
Thanks.

Greg


On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:05:35AM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> It should be executing cron like before.  Did it set up a new crontab as
> root?  Look at that crontab.  All it does is to call a script called
> run-parts and has that run any executable scripts in /etc/cron.hourly
> every hour.  It runs the executable scripts in cron.daily every day at a
> certain time which you can edit.  The same goes for cron.weekly, monthly,
> etc.  You could put your normal crontabs below that.  If it isn't running
> at all, are you sure crond is even running?  As root, type "pgrep crond"
> or the longer, but more informative "ps -ef | grep crond | grep -v grep."
> The second grep in that command removes the first grep from the ps output.
> It's sort of like the lady who swallowed the bird to catch the spider and
> swallowed the spider to catch the fly.  The first "pgrep" command showed
> up some time in Slackware, but I never knew of it until I played with
> Solaris which is where that command originated.  Oh yes, getting back to
> crond.  If you are sure it's running, but your crontab entries are not,
> change its invokation in /etc/rc.d/rc.M so that the "-l10" at the end
> becomes a "-l8."  Then, either reboot or manually kill and restart crond
> being sure to pass the "-l8" yourself.  This will, as explained in the
> script, make crond log every cron job that runs and what happened in a
> file called /var/log/cron.  An example entry from that file is:
> 
> Apr  6 04:47:01 homerun crond[135]: USER root pid 11907 cmd
> /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 1> /dev/null
> 
> In this case, it is nice to have the logrotate package installed to manage
> your logs.  It is set up fairly nice by default and first appeared in
> Slackware 8.1.
> 
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