Crontab logs

Keith Smith techlists at phpcoderusa.com
Mon Jul 20 15:51:46 MST 2015


I'm getting better at figuring these things out... I did check it and it 
is running.... /etc/init.d/crond status.  Lots to learn and know. Thanks 
for the heads up!!



On 2015-07-20 15:39, Kevin Fries wrote:
> Are you certain Cent6.6 has cron enabled?  Many modern systems don't
> any more since cron is going away once you transition to SystemD.  In
> SystemD, whether a process starts and stays running, runs once and
> quits, or runs periodically, you simply create a unit file, and
> optionally a timer.  So... don't just assume cron is running, it may
> no longer be started by default.  CentOS7 will use SystemD.
> 
> Kevin 
> On Jul 20, 2015 4:34 PM, "Keith Smith" <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm on CentOS 6.6 and created a user crontab ( crontabe -e ).  I
>> added the line to run a PHP script at 36 after the hour.
>> 
>> 36 * * * * /path/to/script/script.php
>> 
>> Had a path wrong so it was failing.
>> 
>> Was looking in /var/log/cron and it did not show the error.
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
>> 
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