Cron daemon

[mallaire]

I'm receiving regular error messages from the Cron daemon:

Cron <root@webserver> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
Not a directory: /etc/cron.hourly

I receive the same thing for daily and monthly crons...

When I add a cron directly in the crontab file, it's executed with success... but it looks like the "run-parts" thing is not able to see the /etc/cron.hourly directory. I don't understand...

I'm the owner of this server... and I always do these things under "root" access... so it should not be a permission issue????

Do you have any clue?

Thank you for any help!

 

[nobaloney]

Can you post the output of:

# ls -ald /etc/cron.hourly

and of:

# ls -al /etc/cron.hourly

???

Jeff

 

[mallaire]

# ls -ald /etc/cron.hourly

Result is:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 22 17:05 /etc/cron.hourly/

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# ls -al /etc/cron.hourly

Result is:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 22 17:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 4096 Aug 1 04:21 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Jul 22 17:04 apache_restart.cron

 

[nobaloney]

I'm stumped; everything looks fine.

Jeff