Re: cron problem

From	ghe <ghe@slsware.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: cron problem
Date	2020-05-17 19:30 +0200
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On 5/17/20 10:42 AM, ghe wrote:
> Buster, Supermicro desktop
> 
> Cron jobs (some of them) don't show up in root's email.
> 
> I admin 2 domains -- one on Squeeze, one on Buster. My Squeeze cron 
> results show up fine; Buster's don't. I've reinstalled the Buster jobs. 
> I've copyNpasted them from the Squeeze crontab. Both logwatch results 
> show up (part of /etc/crop.daily). It seems that that the jobs I enter 
> manually don't show up. They didn't use to do that.
> 
> 
> Here's my crontab on Buster:
> 
> root@sbox:~# cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.93Jh1O/crontab installed on Sun May 17 10:11:58 2020)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
> 5 1 * * * /bin/cat /proc/mdstat
> 10 1 * * * test -x /usr/sbin/apticron && /usr/sbin/apticron --cron 
> #apticron
> 
> (The date is a few minutes ago because I removed a dup of logwatch.)
> 
> 
> And on Squeeze:
> 
> root@rrserv:~# cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.bgZABv/crontab installed on Wed May 13 12:48:16 2020)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
> 2 1 * * * /bin/cat /proc/mdstat
> 
> 
> Here's what happens if I manually run one of them (Buster):
> 
> root@sbox:# /bin/cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] 
> [raid4] [raid10]
> md0 : active raid1 sdc1[1] sda1[0]
>        488253440 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
>        bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk
> 
> unused devices: <none>
> 
> 
> I have a feeling that I've done something trivially wrong. But I can't 
> find it. Thoughts?
> 


-- 
Glenn English

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