Re: tiny bug in ucrond

[http://www./~robert (Red Hat Linux User)]

Hi.  It works!  I added -D and it started up fine!  I'm amazed -- it wouldn't
start up at the designated time, but adding -D made it work great!

Thanks very much for all your help!

(I still have to figure out why I'm not receiving any e-mail, but given
all your info below, I think I can figure it out.)

 > From: alinden <http://www.localhost.de/~alinden>
 > Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:48:49 +0200 (MET DST)
 > 
 > robert writes:
 > 
 >  > I tried doing as you suggest: made /var/lib/crontabs world-readable, made
 > 
 > I do not have this problem and others who wrote me feedback about the
 > program do not have it too. Could it be some interaction with another
 > cron or another crontab command on your harddisk?
 >  
 > > the user's crontab file owned by root.  There's a crontab.main file which
 > > is a hard link to root's crontab file and doesn't have any of the user's
 > > jobs in it.
 > 
 > This file contains only root's jobs and it should not be linked to anything.
 > 
 > Assume this:
 > 
 > 1. You have installed it and there is an empty directory /var/lib/crontabs.
 > 
 > 2. You are logged in as root and type crontab <file>. Now the file appears  
 > as crontab.main in the crontab directory. Right?
 > 
 > 3. You log in again with your user account and type crontab <file>. Now two
 > things can happen: 1) The crontab command gives an error message or 2) your
 > user crontab appears in the directory. 
 > If not, what happens then? Does it overwrite crontab.main or does nothing
 > happen?
 > 
 > If you try crontab -e under your user account, which file is loaded into
 > the editor?
 > 
 > > And yet, it still is not running my cron job.  And also doesn't run it when
 > > my computer is shutdown and brought back up.
 > 
 > It does it only if you use -D in the crontab. Normally, if anything goes
 > wrong, you should have an error message in syslog.
 > 
 > I would like to know what happened, but I cannot fix a problem if
 > everything works. I assume your box is not on a standing link? I could
 > telnet an see myself.