Re: [tlug] Odd cron/crontab result.

[Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@example.com>]

bruno raoult <bruno@example.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Jim Breen wrote:
>> > - why I don't get it to work before 10am?
>> > - what I need to do to fix it?
>> 
>> I think the script itself has a pb, not crontab.
>> You could write a one line script, just writing the date
>> in a file somewhere, just to confirm if the problem is
>> coming from your script or from cron itself.

And

burlingk@example.com wrote:
>> 
>> I agree, that is the most likely possability.  

And

Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus@example.com> wrote:

>> @example.com: How do you check that the script is running fine every hours? Do
>> you confrim its operation by looking at system logs or its output?

Yes, it was PB in my script. I was backing up critical files; saving
time/date-stamped copies, and I'd used the wrong format for `date`
which led to a space in the filename for the first 10 hours. I'd also
forgotten that the boxen have sendmail disabled, and hence I wasn't getting
the usual emails about failed cron jobs.

Many thanks for putting me straight.

Jim

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