Hi,
I am programming a Western Digital ShareSpace network disk system.
I installed a cron from ipkg. (explained here: mybookworld.wikidot.com/sharespace ShareSpace - Hacking WD MyBook World Ed)
Cron runs:
I have programmed a crontab with a logfile.
The cron does not read my crontab file since the log file does not show a trace of cron.
Is there a way to know which crontab file uses cron? (Where does cron points to?)
Thanks.
Charles.
Last edited by Scott; 01-17-2011 at 01:51 PM..
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First off, your user needs to be in the cron group. Add them to the group like this:
You must logout and log back into username for the new group to take effect.
Next let's prove that cron is operating properly. Run crontab -e to enter an interactive editor for your cron table.
If cron is working, cron will create the file /home/username/filename and update its timestamp every minute.
See man 5 crontab for further details on how cron entries should be formatted.
If this works, but your logfile thing doesn't, please provide further details on what you're actually doing, i.e. your crontab entries and script files, otherwise we're just guessing.
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Well it does not work.
The system is a Western Digital ShareSpace network disk with a Linux OS on it. I have already done that work on another WD MyBook disk and I had no problem.
First usermod is not found, I could have install it with ipkg but it is not available.
Then as I work as 'root' I would suspect root is in the cron group.
The cron process is /opt/sbin/cron.
With 'strings' command I find that the crontab is /opt/etc/crontab
The crontab reads:
filename is not created by cron
I could run the touch command by hand and it worked of course.
Thanks for your help, I know the system is not standard....
Charles.
Last edited by Scott; 01-17-2011 at 01:52 PM..
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The prefered -- at least by this sysadmin -- method for updating a table is to use the crontab command. Not only does it handle allthe pesky notification tasks, it does validate the syntax of the entries.
With regards to your cron problem - is crond running? The logfile is /var/log/cron, as mentioned in crond. There are also other configuration files mentioned in crontab.
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