crontab help

[frozenpeas]

Hi. I am running Red Hat 7 and want to run Webalizer every day at 12:05 am. Here is my crontab:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

# sysstat
0 * * * 0,6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 600 6 &
5 19 * * * /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A &

# webalizer (run every day at 12:05 am)
5 0 * * * /usr/src/webalizer/webalizer -c /etc/webalizer_domain1.conf
5 0 * * * /usr/src/webalizer/webalizer -c /etc/webalizer_domain2.conf

My paths are correct and my lines do not wrap. So far, I have to manually run Webalizer...

Thanks.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Looks OK except it doesn't have a '&' at the end of the command (i.e to run process in background). I can't check right now but if you installed from the Redhat powertools rpm --> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.0/en/powertools/i386/RedHat/RPMS/webalizer-1.30_04-6.i386.rpm there would be an example cron file in /etc/cron.daily/webalizer.cron . You could check that to see if there is any difference on the syntax.

Other than that, the obvious thing would be to look at the logs, i.e. /var/log/cron, /var/log/cron.1, etc.

Also, I assume you do have the crond daemon running - Redhat also has something called anacron and that uses /etc/anacrontab . Check if they are activated by :

/sbin/chkconfig --list | grep cron

Regards


Hope this helps