cron questions

darkleaf · 06-20-2005, 08:37 AM

Quote:

philip@debian:~$ ps aux | grep cron
root 1155 0.0 0.4 2016 504 ? Ss 10:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron

Is that the daemon? Cause I read somewhere that the daemon would be crond.

Also where would I look to see if cron actually ran my script which sets the time against a server with dpkg-reconfigure ntpdate.

johnMG · 06-21-2005, 01:20 PM

> Is that the daemon? Cause I read somewhere that the daemon would be crond.

Not sure. What did the man page say?

> Also where would I look to see if cron actually ran my script [snip]

You could have your script write to a log file (or syslog)...

Actually, I don't know cron very well -- maybe it already writes to a log file. Have you poked around in /var/log?

darkleaf · 06-21-2005, 01:23 PM

Yeah I checked /var/log there was nothing there but I found out it mailed everything to me so it's working fine

That means that /usr/bin/cron is the daemon. Thanks for the helP!