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vcron or vixie-cron?
Subject: vcron or vixie-cron?
Author: Al West    Posted: 2004-01-30 22:11:36    Length: 571 byte(s)
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Hi,

When I first installed gentoo I emerged vcron as vixie-cron failed to build
at the time.  When I got connected to the internet I emerged vixie-cron,
removed vcron from the default run level, stopped cron, added vixie-cron to
the default run level then started vixie-cron with the init script.

However I find that my cron entries are not honoured. How can I find out
which cron daemon is running? It's definitely there in the process list.

Cheers,
Al

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Subject: vcron or vixie-cron?
Author: Al West    Posted: 2004-01-30 22:33:05    Length: 961 byte(s)
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Al West wrote:

QUOTE
Hi,

When I first installed gentoo I emerged vcron as vixie-cron failed to
build
at the time.  When I got connected to the internet I emerged vixie-cron,
removed vcron from the default run level, stopped cron, added vixie-cron
to the default run level then started vixie-cron with the init script.

However I find that my cron entries are not honoured. How can I find out
which cron daemon is running? It's definitely there in the process list.

Cheers,
Al


Additional:  Also even after touching /etc/cron.deny (/etc/cron.allow does
not exist) other users cannot edit/add cron entries with crontab -e.

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Subject: vcron or vixie-cron?
Author: Ben Measures    Posted: 2004-01-30 23:06:22    Length: 1,255 byte(s)
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Al West wrote:
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However I find that my cron entries are not honoured.

Kind of a mystical sentence there. Some clarity or extra information
would be good.

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Subject: vcron or vixie-cron?
Author: Dennis Nienhüser    Posted: 2004-01-31 07:02:26    Length: 1,196 byte(s)
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Al West wrote:

QUOTE
Hi,

When I first installed gentoo I emerged vcron as vixie-cron failed to
build
at the time.  When I got connected to the internet I emerged vixie-cron,
removed vcron from the default run level, stopped cron, added vixie-cron
to the default run level then started vixie-cron with the init script.

vcron was renamed to vixie-cron [1].

 
QUOTE
However I find that my cron entries are not honoured. How can I find out
which cron daemon is running? It's definitely there in the process list.

rc-status default

hth, Dennis

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev...95324719894&w=4

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Subject: vcron or vixie-cron?
Author: Al West    Posted: 2004-01-31 20:44:06    Length: 1,098 byte(s)
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Ben Measures wrote:

QUOTE
Al West wrote:
However I find that my cron entries are not honoured.

Kind of a mystical sentence there. Some clarity or extra information
would be good.


What I meant was that the list of entries that were in my crontab were not
being run.  

However, after reading the correct man page I found out that my crontab was
incorrect that it listed the username to run the process under.  After
removing that, root jobs ran okay but not user jobs in their own crontabs.
Then I found out that I have to add any users that wish to use cron
into /etc/group - the man pages talk about cron.allow and cron.deny
controlling access however that does not seem to be enough alone.

Thanks for your respsone anyway.

Cheers,
Al

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