Any linux people in the house - Crontab?

[mudcow007]

Right set up a crontab job (well quite a few of them) ages ago on a Ubuntu / Asterisk server

the jobs are a buzzer that informs the factory of its breaks etc...

it has worked swimmingly for ages but recently has took the knock

from terminal if I issue the command crontab -l

i get all the jobs.

but they dont seem to be working

Crontab is running aswell (i can see that by issuing the command
"ps -ef l grep cron l grep -v grep"

i get

root 5575 1 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron

so guessing its running but wont parse the jobs..

any idea...pretty please

[duhawkz]

anything in the logs?

what version of linux are you running?
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[mudcow007]

only thing in the syslog is i can see the job firing but no error that i can see..will post it on here - im not really an ubuntu peep

i think its ubuntu feisty fawn

**edit**

from syslog

Jul 31 15:00:01 pbx-1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[12318]: (root) CMD (cp /var/spool/asterisk/alarm.call /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/alarm.call)


screenshot of cronjobs

https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/Screenshot_zps1cgtmncy.png

[Andy_Pagin]

Could the access modes for /etc/crontab have changed somehow?
IIRC it has to be:
-rw-r--r-- root root

I'm fairly certain cron won't do anything if any other user has access rights to crontab.
If the rights look ok check for sneeky acl rights with:
getfacl /etc/crontab
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[duhawkz]

have you tried restarting cron?

sudo service cron restart
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[mudcow007]

hmmm

running sudo cron restart

i get

cron: cant lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 5575: resource temporarily unavailable

[mudcow007]

weirdly, it just started working!?

cheers guys for your help, i dont know what i changed but it lives muhahahah (evil laugh)

[ScaredyCat]

Has the content of the call file changed or anything in the asterisk extensions.conf changed?

You can also turn on greater verbosity in asterisk to see if they are being processed or if there's an error

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[Andy_Pagin]