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Originally Posted by henrybg
Cron daemon is running. Here are the response to the suggestions thus far. Thanks in advance.
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Did you check for the process crond, as sundaralingam and rylan76 suggested? Does
ps -fC crond turn anything up? Then again, you have the one RELOAD entry from crond in the log, so it did something (maybe dying right after?).
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[root@onlinelv online]# chkconfig --list|grep cron
anacron 0 off 1 off 2 on 3 on 4 on 5 on 6 off
crond 0 off 1 off 2 on 3 on 4 on 5 on 6 off
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OK, it seems configured so that is should run.
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[root@onlinelv online]# tail /var/log/cron
Nov 4 01:34:40 onlinelv crontab[311]: (root) LIST (root)
Nov 4 01:46:31 onlinelv crontab[382]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Nov 4 01:47:04 onlinelv crontab[382]: (root) REPLACE (root)
Nov 4 01:47:04 onlinelv crontab[382]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Nov 4 01:48:01 onlinelv crond[18317]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root)
Nov 4 06:26:56 onlinelv crontab[9671]: (root) LIST (root)
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I don't see any entries showing CoMmanDs being run (matching your diagnosis). On mine, I see:
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Oct 30 02:01:00 lithium CROND[8246]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Oct 30 03:01:00 lithium CROND[8568]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Oct 30 03:33:00 lithium CROND[8735]: (monce) CMD (/home/monce/script/consolidate 5 \%Y-\%m-\%d '??-??-??')
Oct 30 04:01:00 lithium CROND[8956]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
You see jobs for different users being run. The monce job is mine; root's run-parts apparently comes with Fedora Core.
Regarding your machine, I'm poking in the dark. Would you care sharing `crontab -l` for some user on your machine? Look in /var/log/messages? Run
df to see if some file system filled up -- that can sometimes cause the most obscure errors?
BTW, if a cron job runs (which it didn't) and writes anything to stdout or stderr, cron will send it to the owner by e-mail.