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" <alferpal@gmail.com> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general@archlinux.org> 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<karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4<r7h0re4@att.net> wrote:
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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Jason Towell <jtowell@sjgov.org> writes:
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" <alferpal@gmail.com> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general@archlinux.org> 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<karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4<r7h0re4@att.net> wrote:
<snip>
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
Just to be safe I added the full path to my script for the commands it is calling. I also looked at the wiki again and nothing mentions the use of Cronie, and system cron jobs. I also checked the file /var/spool and see anacron which has the sub directories. I would almost say this wiki needs some updating and would assist once we get it working. R7h0re4
On Friday 21 Oct 2011 20:05:18 R7h0re4 wrote:
Just to be safe I added the full path to my script for the commands it is calling.
I also looked at the wiki again and nothing mentions the use of Cronie, and system cron jobs. I also checked the file /var/spool and see anacron which has the sub directories. I would almost say this wiki needs some updating and would assist once we get it working.
I suggest removing cronie / anacron and switching to dcron. It used to be the default, but was switched because it was perceived to be buggy. However, all known bugs have now been fixed, and it's been running reliably for me for ages. I trust it more than cronie / anacron. Paul
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