cron usage

[David Henderson]

Is anyone is this list anymore?


On 1/8/16, David Henderson <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
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