Re: cron job problem

On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:36 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: > On 10/23/2012 6:18 PM, David OBrien wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan > >> <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up > >>> special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), > >>> cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. > >> > >> Quick clarification and correction here: > >> > >> The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is > >> batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, > >> it is referred to as a cron job. > >> > >> That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors > >> (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use > >> different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command > >> crontab which opens the local user's > >> environment-configured editor > >> to modify the user's crontab in the spool. > >> > >> -- > >> </Daniel P. Brown> > >> Network Infrastructure Manager > >> http://www.php.net/ > >> > >> -- > >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >> > > script runs > > ntp updates server time > > script runs again? > > > But why now? This process has been running just fine for months. > Have you tried removing the job entirely from cron and re-adding it? It might be enough to kick-start the process into behaving. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk