scheduled task not running with (vixie)cron

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manouchk · Post by **manouchk** » Sat May 17, 2008 7:22 pm

Hi,

I started using cron recently and scheduled tasks were firstly working and now there are simply ignored. THere tasks supposed to run every minutes

Here is some information:

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/etc/init.d/vixie-cron status
 * status:  started
manu asterisk # crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.XXXXQ6UBVw installed on Mon May 12 08:52:10 2008)
# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)
# for vixie cron
#
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v 1.1 2005/03/04 23:59:48 ciaranm Exp $
#
#

# Global variables
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
0  *  * * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
1  3  * * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
15 4  * * 6     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
30 5  1 * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
*/1 * * * *     root    python /root/ntp.py
*/1 * * * *     root    python /root/sshd.py
*/10  *  * * *  root    test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons

bunder · Post by **bunder** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:02 pm

anything in the cron logs?

prizident · Post by **prizident** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:05 pm

don't forget newline symbol at the end

manouchk · Post by **manouchk** » Sat May 17, 2008 10:06 pm

I just found some (a lot!) cron log in /var/log/messages

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tail /var/log/messages
May 17 18:57:02 manu cron[9103]: (root) MAIL (mailed 35 bytes of output but got status 0x0001 )
May 17 18:57:47 manu rc-scripts: status:  stopped
May 17 18:58:01 manu cron[9213]: (root) CMD (root    python /root/sshd.py)
May 17 18:58:01 manu cron[9215]: (root) CMD (root    python /root/ntp.py)
May 17 18:58:01 manu sSMTP[9216]: Unable to locate mail
May 17 18:58:01 manu sSMTP[9216]: Cannot open mail:25
May 17 18:58:01 manu cron[9214]: (root) MAIL (mailed 35 bytes of output but got status 0x0001 )
May 17 18:58:01 manu sSMTP[9217]: Unable to locate mail
May 17 18:58:01 manu sSMTP[9217]: Cannot open mail:25
May 17 18:58:01 manu cron[9212]: (root) MAIL (mailed 35 bytes of output but got status 0x0001 )

Is there another place were I can find log?

Basically the script /root/ntp.py just start the ntp-client initscript if it is stopped. I stopped this script and it definitely not start it!

Maybe the script is not working "in" cron?

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# more /root/ntp.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import time
stopped=0
a=os.popen('/etc/init.d/ntp-client status')
for l in a.readlines():
    if l.count('stopped'):
        stopped=1
if stopped:
    os.system('/etc/init.d/ntp-client start')