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docs for vixie-cron



Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> i have a box with minimal packages.  cron doesn't seem to be working 
> right. 

Can you elaborate a little on what's not working?
The usual suspects:
 - can you run the command from a terminal?
 - does your command require a tty?
 - is the cron daemon running? ( try "/etc/init.d/crond status" or equivalent)
 - is your system using SELinux, AppArmor, etc that might be interfering?

Anything else is likely to be system-specific.  What distro / version of cron?

Matt







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