cron usage

[Tito]

On 01/08/2016 08:07 PM, David Henderson wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>

Hi,

//config:	help
//config:	  Crond is a background daemon that parses individual crontab
//config:	  files and executes commands on behalf of the users in question.
//config:	  This is a port of dcron from slackware. It uses files of the
//config:	  format /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<username> files, for example:
//config:	      $ cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
//config:	      # Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day:
//config:	      40 4 * * * /etc/cron/daily > /dev/null 2>&1

Ciao,
Tito