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Hi. I seem to be having a bit of a weird problem with crontab on one of my servers. If I log in via SSH, and type;

crontab -l

... it shows the list fine! There is a newline at the bottom of it too, so it should work fine! However, the scripts are not being run :(

I've tried restarting the cron deamon by typing;

/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart

.. and that gets the cron deamon started, but it still doesn't like running the crons.

Are there any more things I should try? Any other way to find out why its not running?

TIA.

Andy (mod)
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What are command codes you are using? It could be that you are using unsupported switches in your command codes, or using a different path to execute programs, like bash, php, etc.
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me
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Just basic Perl commands;

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * perl /home/httpd/vhosts/ukcrawler/job.cgi
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * perl /home/httpd/vhosts/ukcrawler/counter.cgi
0,30 * * * * perl /home/httpd/vhosts/ukcrawler/feat_vehicle.cgi
0,30 * * * * perl /home/httpd/vhosts/ukcrawler/feat_property.cgi
0,30 * * * * perl /home/httpd/vhosts/ukcrawler/feat_classifieds.cgi
0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58 * * * * perl /home/httpd/vhosts/cgi-bin/mail/batch/incoming.pl
0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58 * * * * perl /home/httpd/vhosts/cgi-bin/mail/batch/outgoing.pl


Cheers

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Andy: Sep 26, 2003, 4:35 AM
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You may need to use the full path to perl rather than just perl, like /usr/perl or wherever you perl package exists in the server you are accessing in order to execute your crontab.

Also, try dumping the error message into a text logfile:

> /path/to/logfile.txt for each of your Cron jobs.
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me

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Stealth: Sep 12, 2003, 12:31 PM
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The thing was,it wrked fine until this morning! The cron's keep deleting themselves (god knows why) .. so I just run;

crontab < cron_list.txt

.. and it put them back in for me.

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Madness! It just started working on its own again....Crazy

Right... time for bed I think :)

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