[Voyage-linux] cron script

[Robert Rawlins]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the quick response. This is how I've done things in the past too
but apparently it's not the 'proper' way to handle it, we _should_ be
placing scripts in /etc/cron.d

Two huge benefits to this are:

A) No reboot needed as the changes are picked up instantly.
B) When deploying a cron job as part of a package it makes it much cleaner
to install/remove the job as we don't need to script it.

I'd really like to get it running from /etc/cron.d if possible.

Cheers,

Robert


-----Original Message-----
From: Josh F [mailto:jandafields at gmail.com] 
Sent: 08 October 2008 15:01
To: Robert Rawlins; voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] cron script


I put cron entries into /ro/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root and then reboot.



Robert Rawlins wrote:
>
> Afternoon Guys,
>
> I have a cron script which I'm placing in /etc/cron.d but it doesn't 
> seem to be running for me, I thought I would check in with you all and 
> ask if you might be able to make suggestions as to why.
>
> The script is very simple and just runs a python script I have on the 
> system, something like this:
>
> * * * * * *root* python /myapp/myapp.py > /myapp/output 2>&1
>
> Now, I see an entry in syslog which shows the script being loaded into 
> cron, however the script doesn't appear to be run every minute as I 
> would expect. Do I need to be setting any particular environment 
> variables in the top of this script to get it to run properly?
>
> Many thanks all,
>
> Robert
>
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