cron

Not specific to PHP really, but it all started with a simple PHP script I was automating... I've used cron/crontab on a zillion machines, and it always worked flawlessly. Well, once I'd get the actual shell commands and permissions right anyway. But this time... The cron jobs just aren't having any effect. crond is running, and has been /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart 'ed tail /var/log/crond shows the jobs happening /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny did not exist adding the user to /etc/cron.allow had no effect The 'root' user is being used MAILTO= is set, with no output Using the simplest stupidest cronline: 0 * * * * echo -e ".\n" | mail -s test ceo@l-i-e.com it doesn't work. There are no 'bounced' emails for the 'root' user on this box. It's as if some higher power is intercepting any cron job and killing it without letting cron know about it. Weird. The machine is a dual 64-bit (quad?) CPU, which I guess I've never used before, but I'll be damned if I can see how that would screw up cron... Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-19.8smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 15 15:01:43 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux RedHat 8.0, with all (?) up2date's I'm bemused and defuddled. Any ideas?