Re: problems with using RPM to install files in /etc/cron.d/

[Paolo Campanella <paolo mighty co za>]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 03:13, Trevor Hills wrote:

> users crontab using 'crontab -e'. We thought we could remove this
> manual step in the installation of our applications by instead
> creating a file which contained all the cron entries and having the
> install process copy the file into the /etc/cron.d/ directory. Now, we

I do the same thing, and haven't noticed problems with cron not
updating, on RHEL 3.x and older RH versions. Perhaps you have a problem
with your actual cron job file. Take RPM out of the equation: copy a
file to /etc/cron.d and see if it executes.


Bye

Paolo