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Re: [cobalt-users] Fw: cron not running
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Fw: cron not running
- From: Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Oct 9 13:53:01 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> 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-