[arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 25.08.2009 12:51, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
>> the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this command every
>>     
> minute without a problem
> i think you mis-read your log. and it should tell you that cron is
> looking for changes in /etc/cron.d every minute. 
> may be, if you change you first * * * in your lol then may be it will
> work.
> assuming you're using the good cron. because fcron does not
> support /etc/cron.d but there is other ways to achieve the same thing.
>
> check crond man page or its documentation
>
>
>   
I'm using dcron and also I didn't misread. Also, dcron doesn't look for
changes in said directory without restarting from what I have found out.
It actually tells me what it is going to execute and that is my
/etc/cron.d/lol file. It would report and error otherwise. The thing
that strikes me is that the command doesn't actually do anything. echo
is a shell built-in of sh, bash, any shell really so env vars shouldn't
be an issue.

Any ideas?