Re: unable to find failing cron job config file


Subject: Re: unable to find failing cron job config file
From: James Gibson (twistedhammer@subdimension.com)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 13:14:07 AKDT


Checking the crom man-page it says it also reads stuff in from
/etc/crontab and files from /etc/cron.{d,daily,hourly,monthly,weekly}

taking a look-see in /etc on SuSE 8.0 the /etc/cron.* directories seem to
be populated..

In short, RTMP (Read the man page)

--James

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> I have a weekly cron job that tries to run every Saturday, and fails,
> and e-mails my root account saying it failed. The e-mail says "running
> weekly cronjob scripts, SCRIPT: wwwoffle exited with RETURNCODE = 3."
>
> Under /var/spool/cron/lastrun there are cron.daily and cron.weekly files
> which are both empty. Under /var/spool/cron/tabs there is www, which I
> set up and is running fine. There is no root tabfile. The failing cron
> job must've been set up by the SuSE 7.3 install because I did not set it
> up, but I cannot find where it is to shut it off. Where else would it be?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
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