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Osama KM

4 Dec 2009 4 Dec '09

8:15 a.m.

Hello, cron stopped working yesterday, with no error messages being sent to my email. Is that a known issue? What about other users cron? Thank you! -- Osama Khalid Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions. <http://windows7sins.org>

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JamesR

4 Dec 4 Dec

8:30 a.m.

My cron appears to be working fine. - James On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Osama KM <osamak.wfm(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, cron stopped working yesterday, with no error messages being sent to my email. Is that a known issue? What about other users cron? Thank you! -- Osama Khalid Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions. <http://windows7sins.org>

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Andrew Dunbar

10:47 a.m.

2009/12/4 JamesR <e.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:

My cron appears to be working fine.

Mine too. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

- James On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Osama KM <osamak.wfm(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, cron stopped working yesterday, with no error messages being sent to my email. Is that a known issue? What about other users cron? Thank you! -- Osama Khalid Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions. <http://windows7sins.org>

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Dr. Trigon

1:42 p.m.

I have the same problem: may be your account is expired?! Greetings Am 04.12.2009 11:47, schrieb Andrew Dunbar:

2009/12/4 JamesR<e.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:

My cron appears to be working fine.

Mine too. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

- James On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Osama KM<osamak.wfm(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, cron stopped working yesterday, with no error messages being sent to my email. Is that a known issue? What about other users cron? Thank you! -- Osama Khalid Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions.<http://windows7sins.org>

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James Hare

2:02 p.m.

Were it expired, wouldn't you be unable to log in at all? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:42 AM, "Dr. Trigon" <dr.trigon(a)surfeu.ch> wrote:

I have the same problem: may be your account is expired?! Greetings Am 04.12.2009 11:47, schrieb Andrew Dunbar:

2009/12/4 JamesR<e.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:

My cron appears to be working fine.

Mine too. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

- James On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Osama KM<osamak.wfm(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, cron stopped working yesterday, with no error messages being sent to my email. Is that a known issue? What about other users cron? Thank you! -- Osama Khalid Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions.<http://windows7sins.org>

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Mike.lifeguard

1:33 p.m.

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Hello, cron stopped working yesterday, with no error messages being sent to my email. Is that a known issue? What about other users cron? Thank you! -- Osama Khalid Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions. <http://windows7sins.org>

Please check that your crontab ends with a newline. Consider using nano to edit the file, since that editor will always end your document with a newline. If that isn't the case, then cron silently fails exactly in the manner you described. This is documented at https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Cron#crontab_syntax - -Mike

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Osama KM

10 Dec 10 Dec

10:51 a.m.

On Friday 04 December 2009 16:33:26 Mike.lifeguard wrote:

Osama KM wrote:

Hello, cron stopped working yesterday, with no error messages being sent to my email. Is that a known issue? What about other users cron? Thank you!

Please check that your crontab ends with a newline. Consider using nano to edit the file, since that editor will always end your document with a newline. If that isn't the case, then cron silently fails exactly in the manner you described. This is documented at https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Cron#crontab_syntax

There seemed to be a "mail jam", next day I had many messages in my inbox for the previous 48 hours. Thank you for your response, the link you mentioned is very useful. -- Osama Khalid Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions. <http://windows7sins.org>

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