[gentoo-user] Vixiecron not working all the sudden

["Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com>]

Recently, around October 23rd, I've noticed that my cron.daily stuff isn't
running. I've tried to 'restart' vixiecron and it complains that it's
already started (duh). So I'll killall cron, rm the pid, etc. and then start
it again and it works for a while then dies again. I made a simple script
that emails me and put it in cron.hourly... Sure enough after a while it
just stops working. WTF.

I haven't updated vixiecron in a very long time...

# genlop -l | grep cron
     Fri Jul 23 04:23:37 2004 >>> sys-apps/cronbase-0.3
     Sun Nov  7 10:54:47 2004 >>> sys-apps/vixie-cron-4.1-r2
     Sun Nov  7 21:54:46 2004 >>> sys-apps/cronbase-0.3.1
     Mon Nov 29 03:50:10 2004 >>> sys-apps/vixie-cron-4.1-r4
     Mon Apr 25 04:21:06 2005 >>> sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r7
     Sat May  7 20:28:31 2005 >>> sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2
     Thu Aug 11 06:22:34 2005 >>> sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r8

# genlop -l --date 4 weeks ago
 * app-admin/gnome-system-tools

[I removed some kde/gnome stuff, as that should have no effect]

     Wed Oct 19 12:51:38 2005 >>> [some stuff, but cron worked after this
point]

     Mon Oct 31 17:33:17 2005 >>> app-shells/bash-3.0-r13
     Mon Oct 31 20:48:56 2005 >>> dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e-r2
     Mon Oct 31 23:23:51 2005 >>> dev-lang/python-2.4.2
     Mon Oct 31 23:36:04 2005 >>> sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r2
     Tue Nov  1 00:29:48 2005 >>> net-misc/rsync-2.6.6-r1
     Tue Nov  1 01:11:06 2005 >>> net-misc/wget-1.10.2
     Tue Nov  1 01:45:29 2005 >>> sys-apps/man-pages-2.09
     Tue Nov  1 03:00:18 2005 >>> sys-devel/libtool-1.5.20
     Tue Nov  1 17:22:28 2005 >>> sys-fs/udev-070-r1
     Tue Nov  1 19:48:17 2005 >>> sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3
     Tue Nov  1 21:29:46 2005 >>> net-misc/openssh-4.2_p1
     Wed Nov  2 01:18:33 2005 >>> dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9007
     Wed Nov  2 01:22:39 2005 >>> media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10_rc2
     Wed Nov  2 01:32:16 2005 >>> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc2
     Wed Nov  2 01:32:51 2005 >>> app-admin/localepurge-0.2-r2
     Wed Nov  2 01:37:12 2005 >>> mail-mta/exim-4.54
     Wed Nov  2 01:42:49 2005 >>> dev-libs/glib-2.8.3
     Wed Nov  2 11:25:22 2005 >>> app-crypt/gpgme-1.1.0
     Thu Nov  3 01:24:42 2005 >>> media-libs/taglib-1.4
     Thu Nov  3 08:53:06 2005 >>> net-misc/curl-7.15.0
     Thu Nov  3 08:57:10 2005 >>> gnome-base/librsvg-2.12.7
     Thu Nov  3 08:58:36 2005 >>> app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.4.3
     Thu Nov  3 09:01:17 2005 >>> media-sound/sound-juicer-2.12.2-r1
     Thu Nov  3 09:31:07 2005 >>> dev-python/pygtk-2.8.2
     Thu Nov  3 09:34:29 2005 >>> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r2
     Thu Nov  3 09:37:48 2005 >>> dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.6.4_p3
     Thu Nov  3 09:38:29 2005 >>> net-www/mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0
     Thu Nov  3 09:48:29 2005 >>> media-sound/beep-media-player-0.9.7-r8
     Thu Nov  3 09:51:51 2005 >>> media-libs/imlib2-1.2.1.009
     Thu Nov  3 09:52:48 2005 >>> net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r2
     Thu Nov  3 10:26:21 2005 >>> media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.4.2-r1
     Thu Nov  3 23:31:26 2005 >>> sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r3
     Thu Nov  3 23:42:31 2005 >>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r5
     Thu Nov  3 23:51:59 2005 >>> media-libs/netpbm-10.29
     Thu Nov  3 23:52:43 2005 >>> app-admin/eselect-1.0_rc1
     Thu Nov  3 23:53:21 2005 >>> app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3
     Fri Nov  4 00:05:30 2005 >>> media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r4
     Fri Nov  4 00:10:50 2005 >>> dev-libs/liboil-0.3.3
     Fri Nov  4 00:26:44 2005 >>> net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r4
     Fri Nov  4 00:32:55 2005 >>> x11-libs/fltk-1.1.6
     Fri Nov  4 00:41:16 2005 >>> media-video/totem-1.2.0-r2
     Sat Nov  5 20:04:15 2005 >>> sys-apps/man-pages-2.11
     Sat Nov  5 23:21:51 2005 >>> media-libs/giflib-4.1.4
     Thu Nov 10 22:13:58 2005 >>> sys-apps/attr-2.4.19-r1
     Thu Nov 10 22:16:32 2005 >>> sys-apps/acl-2.2.27
     Thu Nov 10 22:38:35 2005 >>> media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10_rc3
     Thu Nov 10 22:46:57 2005 >>> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc3
     Thu Nov 10 22:47:27 2005 >>> app-portage/mirrorselect-1.2
     Thu Nov 10 23:27:17 2005 >>> dev-util/desktop-file-utils-0.10-r1
     Thu Nov 10 23:34:36 2005 >>> x11-libs/vte-0.11.15-r1
     Thu Nov 10 23:35:17 2005 >>> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r3
     Thu Nov 10 23:38:35 2005 >>> dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.7.0_beta1


The cron man page states:
"In  this  version  of cron, /etc/crontab must not be readable or writable
by any user other than root. In other words, it should be mode 0600."

# ll /etc/crontab 
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2477 Aug 11 06:22 /etc/crontab
# chmod 600 /etc/crontab 
# ll /etc/crontab 
-rw-------  1 root root 2477 Aug 11 06:22 /etc/crontab
# /etc/init.d/vixie-cron restart

But I don't think that will slove it, as the date of the file his Aug
11th... So that means it was running fine for several months with the wrong
perms...

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