cron usage

[David Henderson]

I haven't seen any evidence of this, but do I need to create an
/etc/crontab config file?  I'm looking at my Debian system and it
doesn't have anything in theres to process the cron.d directory
contents, only cron.hourly, cron.monthly, etc...

Dave


On 1/8/16, David Henderson <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> wrote:
> Good morning, are there any BB developers that monitor this list to
> offer help?  Is there another place that I can get this issue
> resolved?
>
> I have made sure that the ownership of the cron.d folder are both root
> and carries 775 permissions.  I've also made sure the files contained
> within are also owned by root and also have a 775 permission set.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
> On 1/7/16, David Henderson <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> wrote:
>> Greetings, since I already have the cron daemon running (verified via
>> ps), I tried setting up an example by creating the /etc/cron.d
>> directory and creating a test file:
>>
>> * * * * * echo 'hello world' >> /tmp/test.txt
>>
>> This does not appear to be picked up by cron.  So looking at the help
>> output, I thought I should be using the '-c' parameter:
>>
>> crond -c /etc/cron.d
>>
>> Once again, this appears to fail.  Any thoughts on why this isn't
>> working?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
>