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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't get my crontab to run Post 303006540 by RudiC on Friday 3rd of November 2017 08:04:13 AM
Old 11-03-2017
That can be due to several reasons. Does it
- start at all? Check in system logs.
- start on time? Depending on your locale, 6 can be Saturday.
- fail right after starting? Schedule a simple script to just issue a message and exit.
- fail in the middle? Run in debug (xtrace) mode and analyse the log file.
 

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FSCK-LARCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     FSCK-LARCH(1)

NAME
fsck-larch - verify that a larch B-tree is internally consistent SYNOPSIS
fsck-larch [--config=FILE] [--dump-config] [--dump-memory-profile=METHOD] [--dump-setting-names] [--fix] [--generate-manpage=TEMPLATE] [-h] [--help] [--list-config-files] [--log=FILE] [--log-keep=N] [--log-level=LEVEL] [--log-max=SIZE] [--log-mode=MODE] [--no-default-configs] [--output=FILE] [--trace=PATTERN] [--version] [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
fsck-larch reads an on-disk, committed B-tree created by the larch Python library, and verifies that it is internally consistent. It re- ports any problems it finds, but does not currently fix them. OPTIONS
--config=FILE add FILE to config files --dump-config write out the entire current configuration --dump-memory-profile=METHOD make memory profiling dumps using METHOD, which is one of: none, simple, meliae, or heapy (default: simple) --dump-setting-names write out all names of settings and quit --fix fix problems found? --generate-manpage=TEMPLATE fill in manual page TEMPLATE -h, --help show this help message and exit --list-config-files list all possible config files --log=FILE write log entries to FILE (default is to not write log files at all); use "syslog" to log to system log, or "none" to disable log- ging --log-keep=N keep last N logs (10) --log-level=LEVEL log at LEVEL, one of debug, info, warning, error, critical, fatal (default: debug) --log-max=SIZE rotate logs larger than SIZE, zero for never (default: 0) --log-mode=MODE set permissions of new log files to MODE (octal; default 0600) --no-default-configs clear list of configuration files to read --output=FILE write output to FILE, instead of standard output --trace=PATTERN add PATTERN to trace patterns --version show program's version number and exit SEE ALSO
Larch home page (http://liw.fi/larch/). FSCK-LARCH(1)
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