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Adding a custom directory to /etc/crontab

Howdy LQ,

I am having issues running scripts within a custom directory I added to /etc/crontab
I added same arguments, and gave the same permissions to the custom directory as what the other cron directories have. Is there something that I am missing? Or am I going to have to edit the 'crontab -e', and redo all of this on my 80 different nodes?

Code:

cat /etc/crontab

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=root

HOME=/



# run-parts

01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly

02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily

22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

05 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.cleanup

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Apr 22 09:54 cron.cleanup

drwx------  2 root root    4096 Jul 15  2008 cron.d

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Jun  1  2009 cron.daily

-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 Jun  1  2009 cron.deny

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Jul 14  2006 cron.hourly

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Jun  1  2009 cron.monthly

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Jun  1  2009 cron.weekly

Code:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 144 Apr 22 09:47 guardian_coredump.sh

What operating system are you running? If running a Red Hat derivative; check your SELinux contexts

Quote:

Originally Posted by Predatorian (Post 4936646)

I am running RHEL 6

Is SELinux running?

What's the output of

Code:

getenforce

Could well be SELinux; what errors/msgs (exactly) are you getting.
Have you checked /var/log/audit/audit.log?

The answer to my question is:

instead of

Code:

05 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.cleanup

it is supposed to be

Code:

*/5 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.cleanup

Now it runs every five minutes, outputs to /var/log/cron and does what I need it to do. Thanks for help guys.