Greetings. I have created a certain number of cronjobs (15) to be executed at certain time, but Im having issues with the time of the job, for example:
5 1 * * * Command to be executed
Doesn’t run, but if I do something like this:
5 10 * * * Command to be executed
Runs perfectly.
I don’t know if this have something to do with the date/timezone that I setted to my vps.
Thank you for your attention.
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This is an old one, but just stumbled across it now. Hopefully this will be useful for people still landing here from search. What I suspect was happen here was that /var/log/syslog was being rotated after the command was successfully run but before you checked the logs.
logrotate is run daily via it’s entry in /etc/cron.daily/:
# ls /etc/cron.daily/
apport bsdmainutils logrotate mdadm passwd update-notifier-common
apt-compat dpkg man-db mlocate popularity-contest
Scripts in /etc/cron.daily/ are run daily at 06:25:
# grep '/etc/cron.daily' /etc/crontab
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
So if you check /var/log/syslog after that point in time, it may not contain entries from before then. To confirm if this is why you can not find a log entry, check /var/log/syslog.1 for older ones.
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