Re: cron script won't run

[Matthew Metzger <news@thinkdeeper.com>]

thanks for the responses to my question. I learned from them. My problem 
was that I was directly editing the /etc/crontab file instead of using 
the crontab command correctly. Once I figured out how to create a cron 
job in a separate text file and then add it to the crontab with "crontab 
config_text.cron", it worked fine.

thanks for your help.

-Matthew



Matthew Metzger wrote:
> A follow up:
> 
> I fixed the PAM errors by running:
> apt-get install pam_krb5
> 
> my crontab script, however, still will not run.
> 
> -Matthew
> 
> 
> 
> Matthew Metzger wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a script that works great when I run it from the command line, 
>> but doesn't work at all when added to crontab. The strange part is 
>> that /var/log/cron shows the job running:
>>
>> Sep 26 03:39:01 cono crond[25241]: (root) CMD 
>> (/etc/cron.3min/mail-restart.sh)
>>
>>
>> However, the log shows some other errors that may have something to do 
>> with it.
>>
>> PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_krb5.so
>> (root) CMD (/etc/cron.3min/mail-restart.sh)
>> PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_krb5.so)
>> PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_krb5.so: cannot open shared object 
>> file: No such file or directory]
>>
>> However, other cron jobs run just fine. So I'm not sure what is the 
>> problem. Any help in figuring this out would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Matthew
>>
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