Scripts in cron.daily are not running daily

abefroman · 12-22-2014, 05:11 PM

Scripts in cron.daily are not running daily

Scripts in crontab -l run just fine.

If I run:

Code:

run-parts /etc/cron.daily

The scripts run fine.

anacrontab has the following:

Code:

# cat /etc/anacrontab  |grep daily
1	5	cron.daily		nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily

How do I know if anacrontab is executing/running?

TIA

malekmustaq · 12-23-2014, 12:11 PM

What does log says?

Code:

cat /var/log/cron

Check permissions of folder /var/spool/cron/crontabs and see if your file there is readable. If you run cron at $USER specific your $USER should be located in this same folder.

For further debugging run cron to debug mode

Code:

crond -l -d

and see what keeps the script from running.

Hope that helps.

Good luck.