cron log

bonj First of all, your cron command looks funny. Part of myetc-crontab file looks like this:

# M is minute to start: 00 - 59 # H is hour to start; 00 - 23 # D is day of month to start: 01 - 31 # m is month to start: 01 - 12 -- 01 is January, etc. # d is day of week to start: 00 - 06 -- 00 is Sunday, etc.

# run-parts # cron.daily is run Monday - Saturday. # cron.weekly is run Sunday only.

# Do not start things from 01:00 to 02:59 because they will run twice # when the fall switch from daylight savings time to standard time occurs, # and may be skipped in the spring when 2:00 AM is skipped.

#M H D m d user program arguments 01 * * * * root run-partsetc-cron.hourly

A private crontab file looks like this:

#M H D m d program arguments *-15 * * * * home-user1-sensors.sh 50 16 * * 2 home-user1-machine-update -m

Now when you finally get it right, you might look invar-log-cron (at least on Red Hat systems). Entries look like this:

Feb 17 07:50:00 trillian CROND14984: (root) CMD (-usr-lib-sa-sa1 1 1) Feb 17 07:50:00 trillian CROND14986: (user1) CMD (-home-user1-.sigfile)

-- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. V PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ^^-^^ 07:50:00 up 28 days, 16:05, 3 users, load average: 2.44, 2.29, 2.21