John Hunt's web log » cron http://john-hunt.com Linux, open source, development, coding, beer and other stuff Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:08:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Cron gotcha http://john-hunt.com/2008/02/14/cron-gotcha/ http://john-hunt.com/2008/02/14/cron-gotcha/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:28:24 +0000 admin http://john-hunt.com/linux/2008/02/14/cron-gotcha/ While pondering why my backup scripts weren’t working in /etc/cron.daily, I remembered that run-parts (the thing that runs stuff in that directory) doesn’t like running scripts with a .sh, or indeed probably any extension on them.

Handy to remember that one!

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