[arm-allstar] cron

[David McGough]

Tom,

The user crontab files live in the /var/spool/cron directory. Are there 
any files in this directory?  When you run "crontab -e" as root, it's 
specifically looking for this file:

/var/spool/cron/root

...Does it look correct?

73, David KB4FXC




On Thu, 28 Jun 2018, "Tom Eaton via arm-allstar" wrote:

> yes
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:24 AM "Justin Reed via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> > Are you logged in as root?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Jun 28, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Tom Eaton via arm-allstar <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply Doug, but when I do crontab  -e  it opens the editor
> > > that is blank, is there something I am doing wrong it has always work ok
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:43 PM "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
> > > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Tom,
> > >>
> > >> The following two lines should be in cron -
> > >>
> > >> # Do not remove the following line
> > >> # required for lsnodes and allmon
> > >> 15 03 * * * cd /usr/local/sbin; ./astdb.php cron
> > >> 00 0-23 * * * (source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env ; /usr/bin/nice -19
> > >> /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/saytime.pl $NODE1 > /dev/null)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> crontab -e opens the nano editor and should display the lines in
> > >> cron.Nothing has changed in that regard.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> *73 Doug*
> > >>
> > >> *WA3DSP*
> > >>
> > >> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 8:07 PM, "Tom Eaton via arm-allstar" <
> > >> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> When I type in crontab -e      I get a blank box with file name at top
> > >> and
> > >>> there are no other lines and it use to have the do not remove etc and
> > >> time
> > >>> on the hour. it is not there, but time on the hour still works. has
> > >>> something changed?
> > >>>
> > >>> Tom
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