Cron Job will not run.

[Nathan Vidican]

May be a really dumb question here, but like all technical problems, start with 
the simple stuff:

ps ax | grep cron   ????

Is cron even running?

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Nathan Vidican
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Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
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Brandon Hinesley wrote:
> I forgot to mention that I've already tried giving the absolute path to
> every executable mentioned in the script, but to no avail.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris [mailto:racerx at makeworld.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:56 PM
> To: Alex Zbyslaw
> Cc: Brandon Hinesley; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Cron Job will not run.
> 
> Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> 
>>Brandon Hinesley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however,
>>>nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being
>>>rotated.  I don't know if this makes a difference, but the "Backup"
>>>folder
>>>is a file system on an external hard drive.  I am also using samba to
>>>share
>>>that folder as r/o.  [...]
>>>Here's part of my /etc/crontab:
>>>--------------------
>>>SHELL=/bin/sh
>>>PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
>>>[...]
>>>rsync -av --delete $files/$docs $dbkups/0/
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>This is a FAQ, though I don't know if it's in the FAQ :-)
>>
>>From the command line /usr/local/bin (where rsync lives) is in your
>>path.  From Cron it is not.  Either add it to the crontab or set PATH in
>>your script.  The latter is recommended since the script works whatever
>>the running user has their path set to.  There may be some other path
>>problem I've missed, but this ones sticks out.
>>
>>--Alex
> 
> 
> 
> Blah - I dont know where rsync lives - let's assume it lives in
> /usr/local/sbin - change the line in cron to:
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/rsync -av --delete $files/$docs $dbkups/0/
> 
>