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crontab not working

Posts: 10
edited May 2012 in Command Line

Hi,

I need to start couple of services regularly (once a day), I have set it as below, but its not executing. Kindly assist.

below is the setup

[root@auth ~]# crontab -l

# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)

# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)

# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)

# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...

# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR

#sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat

# | | | | |

# * * * * * command to be executed

52 10 * * * /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin restart &&

53 10 * * * /etc/init.d/dirsrv restart &&

Note: flavour: fedora 11

Thanks,

linuxque

Comments

  • Posts: 647
    1- Do you have the cron daemon running?
    2- Redirect the output of the commands to check if there's any problem while running it
    3- You know that you need to set the ENV variables in the contrab? (ala PATH=/bin/ ...)
    4- Why the "&&"?
  • Posts: 11
    try this

    1) # pgrep crond
    2)if not running
    check /etc/init.d/ for crond daemon
    then try to start it
    #/etc/init.d/crond start

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