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Re: cron problem

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: cron problem
Date 2020-05-18 00:50 +0200
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On Sun 17 May 2020 at 13:05:39 (-0600), ghe wrote:
> On Sunday, May 17, 2020 12:03 PM, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I always examine my cron with
> >
> > crontab -l
> >
> > rather than just catting some random file.
> 
> Here it is, but I see no difference, except the disabled tripwire.
> 
> root@sbox:~# crontab -l
> # 14 3 * * * /etc/sls/mountTripwire.sh ; /usr/sbin/tripwire -m c |
> mail -s "SBOX Tripwire Report" root@slsware.net ;
> /etc/sls/umountTripwire.sh
> 5 1 * * * /bin/cat /proc/mdstat
> 10 1 * * * test -x /usr/sbin/apticron && /usr/sbin/apticron --cron #apticron

OK, I thought you might list both. I'm not actually sure where output
goes because I always have MAILTO set, which takes care of it.

Have you checked the logs? I see lines in both auth.log and syslog
whenever cron jobs run, and even when I just look with   crontab -l.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: cron problem ghe <ghe@slsware.net> - 2020-05-17 21:10 +0200
  Re: cron problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-18 00:50 +0200

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