Problem with cronjob

[maxtremist]

Hi

i worked through the Crontab Tutorial but it doesnt work.

root@WL700gE:/usr/bin# ps | grep cron
  483 root        432 S   crond -c /etc/crontabs
root@WL700gE:/usr/bin# date
Thu Apr 24 16:23:47 CEST 2008

the test-scripts in the cron. dirs work (manually)
i double checked my system with the tutorial and everything seems fine.
how can i check whats wrong?

thx

[macsat]

Did you start the cron process at all?

[maxtremist]

yes, it should startup with the S61crond script, or am i wrong with this.

ps shows

root@WL700gE:/usr/bin# ps | grep cron
  483 root        432 S   crond -c /etc/crontabs

is there another identification to look if it is started?

[macsat]

Nope.

This looks very much running :-)

Does:

Code:

logread

show you any cron entries?

[maxtremist]

it looks that the cron process looks for the right dir, but is not executing the scripts in there.

Code:

root@WL700gE:~# logread |grep cron
Jan  1 01:00:42 (none) cron.notice crond[487]: crond 2.3.2 dillon, started, log level 8
Jan  1 01:01:01 (none) cron.notice crond[487]: USER root pid 576 cmd /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
Jan  1 01:03:01 (none) cron.notice crond[487]: USER root pid 583 cmd /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.nightly
Jan  1 01:05:01 (none) cron.notice crond[487]: USER root pid 585 cmd /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.5mins
Jan  1 01:10:01 (none) cron.notice crond[487]: USER root pid 588 cmd /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.5mins
.....

i have also tryed to chmod 777 the scripts and the dirs.