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Not getting cron to work
I've tried to get a script (importing torrent files from rss) executed once an hour by simply placing it in cron.hourly but nothing whatsoever happens. The script executes well manually when I'm logge...
/etc/crontab defines the default jobs
2 things to note:
1. Scripts placed in the cron.hourly / cron.daily etc directories will be run automatically - no cron updates need be made. You can verify the scripts to be run with the 'run-parts' command
2. They will be run under a standard bourne shell (/bin/sh) so be sure that your script runs fine under that (standard login shell for the root user is bash, not bourne shell)
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
2 things to note:
1. Scripts placed in the cron.hourly / cron.daily etc directories will be run automatically - no cron updates need be made. You can verify the scripts to be run with the 'run-parts' command
2. They will be run under a standard bourne shell (/bin/sh) so be sure that your script runs fine under that (standard login shell for the root user is bash, not bourne shell)
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