Subject: Re: unable to find failing cron job config file
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 14:44:56 AKDT
okay, I found it. It was under /etc/cron.weekly.. i was under the
impression that the only place it looked was /var/spool/cron/<username>
Thanks for the help!
Justin
James Gibson wrote:
>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:
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>>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."
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>>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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