cron help on debian sarge

[sciencewhiz]

I have the following script in /etc/cron.hourly that doesn't run:

#! /bin/bash
/usr/bin/rsync -rlz root@192.168.234.198:/var/lib/cvsd/beachbot /var/lib/cvsd/
/bin/chmod -R a+r /var/lib/cvsd/beachbot
/bin/chmod -R a+X /var/lib/cvsd/beachbot

The script runs fine when I run it as root from the commandline.

I've attached my /etc/crontab, which has not been modified from the debian default.

Any ideas?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Run it like this: script > LOG_FILE 2>&1

 

[nweaver]

did you do a "crontab -e" as root to edit Root's crontab, or edit the hourly itself? I think crontab -e is the correct command, and you add it to that.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: nweaver
did you do a "crontab -e" as root to edit Root's crontab, or edit the hourly itself? I think crontab -e is the correct command, and you add it to that.

crontab -e edits crontab itself. Isn't cron.hourly just a script run by crontab every hour?

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Run it like this: script > LOG_FILE 2>&1

The log file is empty

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Run it like this: script > LOG_FILE 2>&1

The log file is empty

Add some debug echos, or add it to cron the way you would with a regular cron.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I found the problem, it had to do with the name of my script.

The crontab calls run-parts which runs all appropriately named files in the /etc/cron.hourly. My script had a period in the name and didn't get run because of that.