[SLUG] cron not running

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2006 - 10:13:25 EST

I have a job in root's crontab:

0 4 * * * /export/bin/backup /dev/hdc /dev/hde

eben@pc:~$ \ls -l /export/bin/backup
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root eben 3866 2006-11-12 10:44 /export/bin/backup

eben@pc:~$ grep -B 4 -A 4 'set -x' /export/bin/backup
}

sync

set -x
date '+%a %d %b %Y'
echo blocksize=2^$blocksizelog kB
bytesmax=$(fdisk -l $source | grep ^Disk | cut -f 5 -d ' ')

The "set -x" isn't the only command in that script which produces output,
as you see. Why don't I get an email from it?

eben@pc:~$ ps ax | grep cron
  7342 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron

Apparently cron's running. How do I make sure it's working though?

The computer was restarted yesterday (involuntarily... I knocked out the
plug), and still no output. 

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