root@head1st.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Operator) (06/07/91)
Has anyone had any trouble with cron. I've had problems on two NeXTs now. Both are running 2.0. The problem is cron doesn't won't execute the crontab, or crontab.local files. This was first notice on both machines when setting uucp - i.e. trying to get cron to run uucico. I can run uucico manually fine. But when I enter 15 * * * * uucp /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 in either the /etc/crontab or the /etc/crontab.local file, uucico doesn't run. I've checked all setuid potential problems, and have even changed to run by root, but this doesn't matter. When I reboot the system the monitor does show "update cron", so presumably cron's files are being read. On one of the two machines. The problem eventually cured itself for unknown reasons...What's the trick to this? Has anyone else had similar troubles?