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Re: [cobalt-users] Fw: cron not running



> Hi,
> I placed a cgi into /etc/cron.quarter-hourly and set permissions to 777, but
> the script is not running every 15 min. What is wrong with my RaQ3?

> The script is running fine when I call it with perl script.cgi or so.

> Any ideas?

Try tossing the following into your /etc/crontab:
0,15,30,45 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-hourly

The chances are that there is no entry for quarter-hourly in
your /etc/crontab.  Cron runs as root, making the permissions
777 is extremely _bad_, 755 or 700 should work fine. 

Jeff-