I am looking for crond - on a Debian Etch/Lenny system
Okay - dumb question but I seem to be coming up with a big goose-egg.
I am attempting to run some cron jobs on a Debian system , and I don't seem to see the crond daemon running or in /etc/init.d/ I attempt to look for it with apt-get and synaptic. Is it called something else under Debian?? Anyone? Glen |
Code:
# dpkg -l cron |
Okay - I looked
root@xxxxxx:~# dpkg -l cron
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=============================================-=============================================-==================================================================================================== ====== ii cron 3.0pl1-100 management of regular background processing root@xxxxxxxxxx:~# apt-c apt-cache apt-cdrom apt-config root@debianiws:~# apt-cache search ^cron anacron - cron-like program that doesn't go by time apticron - cron-script to mail impending apt updates bcron-run - Bruce's cron system cron - management of regular background processing cron-apt - automatic update of packages using apt-get cronolog - Logfile rotator for web servers cronosii - fast, light-weight and functional GNOME e-mail client fcron - cron-like scheduler with extended capabilities I see that the cron package is installed. However, should there not be a 'crond' or is that not a Debian-type application? The reason that I ask this is that I did edit the crontab , added some jobs and they did not run. I did not even see any activity in the messages log that they attempted to run. So, that would indicate to me that I have done something wrong or I am missing something. I believe that my crontab is okay as I ran it on a RHEL system and it worked fine. What am I missing? G |
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