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> > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 03:36, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > how do I check to see if a job is being run?


take a look at /var/log/cron

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Thread : cron/anacron

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Frank McCormick Seeing all the messages here about cron/anacron reminded me of a question - how do I check to see...

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Alan McKinnon cron is a really good tool. You tell is to do something at 12 midnight and it does it. The problem...

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Frank McCormick //snip// //snip// Only one more question: what are the files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs used for...

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Derek Broughton Yes. You _personally_ run updatedb? Generally it's run by root from /etc/cron.daily/slocate (which...

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Frank McCormick No the job is assigned to root, but apparently never runs because it seems whenever I use the db by...

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Derek Broughton That's not the usual place for updatedb - as Alan also said it's run out of /etc/cron.daily when...

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Alan McKinnon Yes, that's correct. /var/spool/cron/* contains user crontabs. In this context, root is considered...

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Frank McCormick Can't be that as the crontab in /var/spool is for root. The mystery continues. Cheers Frank...

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Frank McCormick Sorry for the double reply but I just noticed there is no job entry in anacrontab for cron.hourly....

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Alan McKinnon That's quite common actually. Most system tasks are fine if run daily, and the infrastructure is...

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Frank McCormick I wondered what this run-parts was! Now I get it Actually I can't think of anything I need run once...

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Toby Kelsey Anacron files are in /var/spool/anacron/. Only the day part of the timestamp is relevant but it...

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Frank McCormick As you probably realize I am on your side :) Cheers Frank Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)...

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Alan McKinnon Frankly, I don't think cron should concern itself with faulty time issues. That's a problem that...

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