Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running

Hi Alex, I think in a default configuration crond handles hourly and runs anacron to handle the daily, weekly, etc. I was having trouble running a daily until I realized my cron.daily shell script environment path did not include /usr/local/bin. Placing the full path to my perl script fixed the issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Ferrando" To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 9:05:56 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running Maybe I'm getting it wrong, but is dcron the one that runs the cron.hourly/daily and so on folders as the crontab in the wiki with reference to that default crontab for dcron, not cronie On Fri 21 Oct 2011 05:55:33 PM CEST, R7h0re4 wrote:

Karol Blazewicz writes:

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4 wrote:

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I made a custom script that I want to put into the weekly system cron job and according to my logs the script is not running weekly like it should.

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 87 Aug 4 13:39 cool_script.sh

According to my information the permission are correct as only root should be able to run system cron jobs.

This is the only thing I have seen in my logs.

Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Anacron started on 2011-10-20 Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.weekly' locked by another an acron - skipping Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 12 min. Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Jobs will be executed sequentially Oct 20 03:02:01 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' started Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Normal exit (1 job run) Oct 20 03:13:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' started Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Normal exit (1 job run)

I do not have Anacron installed, and my script does not run weekly like it is supposed too, I would like fix this problem.

Any suggestions are welcome!

R7h0re4

Are you using cronie, dcron or some other cron? cronie provides anacron.

I do have Cronie installed but I am still wondering why the script won't run if put in the weekly cron folder. My understanding is the documentation is a little week concerning this topic on the Wiki. Do I need to fill a bug report, or is something out of place.

R7h0re4

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