Re: Crontab doesn't run jobs

Jean-David Beyer ha scritto:
VP wrote:
I usually put on my debian systems an auto poweroff entry with

crontab -e

30 18 * * * /sbin/poweroff

as root. crond is running, but at the time specified nothing happens.

what can be?

You want it to shutdown your machine at 6:30PM everyday? I assume you do.

Were you logged in as root when you did that? What does /var/spool/cron look like (i.e, ls -l /var/spool/cron)?

man poweroff ?


18:30 was just an example, it's a small samba share server that should turn off on 20:00.

Yes, i did it as root, also tried to create /etc/cron.allow with ALL, but nothing.

I tried also to change different simple commands, as touch /tmp/example or something. So it seems any job wouldn't start.

I have also enabled logging but seems it logs just my crontab -e edits

ls -l /var/spool/cron returns:

drwxrwx--T 2 daemon daemon 24 2008-11-30 16:07 atjobs
drwxrwx--T 2 daemon daemon 8 2008-11-29 19:36 atspool
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 2008-12-01 00:45 crontabs
.

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