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cron.daily scripts won't run

By Evert on 2006-10-06 21:39:27

I just found the solution for my problem that some of the scripts in /etc/cron.daily would never run, and I thought i'd share it..

This might be really obvious for some of you, but I thought if I blog this with a clear title it might be of help for some other people as well. I had problems googling this myself, so here is my solution:

Apparently those scripts are not allowed to have extensions such as .sh or .php.. when this is the case the scripts will simply be ignored..

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Sebastian
Sebastian said on Saturday, 7 October 2006 at 8:30 am CEST

Works like a charm here. Must be something else (are your files executable?)

epaulin
epaulin said on Saturday, 7 October 2006 at 1:42 pm CEST

It seems you running on Debian,
#man run-parts

It's a old dpkg bug.

Evert
Evert said on Monday, 9 October 2006 at 5:48 am CEST

Yep, I am running debian..

(yes, my files were executable)

After updating that box the problem persists though..

Martin
Martin said on Thursday, 17 April 2008 at 6:35 am CEST

Thank you SO much, this quick fix made the script I spent hours picking over work.







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