Cronie is not working out of the box...possible installation bug.

vectox · 2013-10-06 15:02:18

Just did a fresh install of Arch out of the box. I noticed that my cron jobs haven't been working.
I dropped them in /etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.hourly .

No cron logs are present under /var/log

I also ran crontab -e and put in a job of:
*/1 * * * * /bin/echo test >> /tmp/testing

No /tmp/testing file gets created.

I also don't see any cron process running on the system with:
ps -ef |grep -i cron

I don't see any cron process registered in systemctl after running:
systemctl | grep -i cron

I also reinstalled cronie with:
pacman -Syu cronie

No change after reinstalling cronie.
I'm sure that I could play around with cronie and get it working, but according to the guides that I've seen.....it's working out of the box with Arch.

Thoughts?

karol · 2013-10-06 15:06:47

Did you start cronie?

drcouzelis · 2013-10-06 15:07:36

I'm not sure, but please be aware of this little catch that caught me a while back: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1011365

vectox · 2013-10-06 16:05:51

drcouzelis wrote:

I'm not sure, but please be aware of this little catch that caught me a while back: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1011365

Possibility there...mine are links to file names and the link names do have spaces in them.
I removed the names with periods though I don't think it's getting that far along to actually execute them.

Last edited by vectox (2013-10-06 16:06:45)

karol · 2013-10-06 16:09:19

You have to properly quote the filenames with spaces or remove the spaces and use e.g. underscores, if possible.

vectox · 2013-10-06 16:11:05

karol wrote:

Did you start cronie?

Sure, I ran crond and now it's ruuning, though my
*/1 * * * * /bin/echo test >> /tmp/testing

didn't yield any results.

Keep in mind here that I'm reporting, what I suspect is, an installation bug.

My outdated copy of arch that got buggered during the systemd transition was just out of date so I did a fresh install with the latest image.
Cron doesn't appear to be enabled with systemd....which may be the main problem.

karol · 2013-10-06 16:12:49

vectox wrote:

karol wrote:
Did you start cronie?
Cron doesn't appear to be enabled with systemd....which may be the main problem.

That's what I'm asking about: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cr … _autostart

vectox · 2013-10-06 16:15:02

I enabled everything just fine by running:
systemctl start cronie
systemctl enable cronie

All the crons are now working just fine....which I think is what karol was getting at.

vectox · 2013-10-06 16:15:53

Thanks for your help all.

karol · 2013-10-06 16:35:14

You're welcome :-)
The wiki often has useful advice on how to set things up or troubleshoot them.

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

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Cronie is not working out of the box...possible installation bug.

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