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Rein
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cron.d not working

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Hi,

I placed the file:backup-dwt in /etc/cron.d
It says:
SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=root

HOME=/



# dagelijks om 22:43 uitvoeren van de zarafa bu

37 22 * * *	 	root 	/root/zarafa_db_bu.sh

# dagelijks om 00:12 12:12 en 18:12 uitvoeren van de rsync_bu (flexshare, home en zarafa attachments - incremental)

17 00,12,18 * * *	root	/root/rsync_bu.sh

I restarted the crond deamon with:
service crond restart


Why aren't both files triggered? What is it I'm doing wrong?
When I start the jobs they are working fine.
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Friday, January 02 2015, 01:45 PM
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    Rein
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    Saturday, January 03 2015, 11:24 AM - #Permalink
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    OK, thanks. It is solved!

    The only problem was: No Enter (new line) after the last line in the file:backup-dwt
    17 00,12,18 * * * root /root/rsync_bu.sh

    The job /root/zarafa_db_bu.sh did run. I just overlooked it in /var/log/cron :blush:

    Thanks for the help,
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    Nick Howitt
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    Saturday, January 03 2015, 10:22 AM - #Permalink
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    I meant the full paths in your rsync_bu.sh script.
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    Rein
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    Saturday, January 03 2015, 09:59 AM - #Permalink
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    Thanks for your thougts.

    Yes I checked /var/log/cron
    Because the scripts write (echo ) a start and stop message to the log.
    I see the START/STOP msg only when I start the jobs by hand.

    @Nick I do mention the full path? /root/rsync_bu.sh what else to specify.
    I'll try the shell variant mentioned by Tony.
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    Tony Ellis
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    Friday, January 02 2015, 11:37 PM - #Permalink
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    or something like this 

    
37 22 * * *   /bin/su root -l -c "/root/zarafa_db_bu.sh"

    did you check /var/log/cron ?
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    Nick Howitt
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    Friday, January 02 2015, 07:49 PM - #Permalink
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    When you run your cron job you are executing your scripts with root permissions, but I don't think they run with root's environment. you may need to specify full paths to executables or set PATH in your shell script.
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