I created a dummy entry in /etc/crontab, but it doesn't get executed according to cron log /var/log/cron:
Feb 7 08:20:01 localhost CROND[22781]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 7 08:30:01 localhost CROND[23132]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 7 08:40:01 localhost CROND[23137]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 7 08:50:01 localhost CROND[23147]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 7 09:00:01 localhost CROND[23922]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 7 09:01:01 localhost CROND[23977]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Feb 7 09:01:01 localhost run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[23977]: starting 0anacron Feb 7 09:01:01 localhost run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[23986]: finished 0anacron Feb 7 09:10:01 localhost CROND[24264]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 7 09:20:01 localhost CROND[24295]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
/etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # For details see man 4 crontabs # Example of job definition: # .---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | .------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ... # | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat # | | | | | # * * * * * user-name command to be executed 05 20 * * * root /data/CENTRAL_BACKUP/xxx.sh
the OS is centos
Best Answer
Have you tried turning the service off then back on again? I came across a similar issue not too long ago configuring a backup script for our wiki server. You have to restart the service to get it to load the new configuration, so if you haven't already, try that.
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