Cronjob cron.daily does not run (debian)

Question

I got a script to run daily at any time. So /etc/cron.daily seems to be an easy solution.

But now I got the problem, the cronjob won't run that script. It seems like the cronjob won't run any of the daily jobs.

So I tried to put it to cron.hourly and everything worked fine. But I dont want to run the backup script every hour.

/etc/init.d/cron start|stop works without errors.

/etc/crontab looks like default:

 m h dom mon dow user  command
17 *    * * *   root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report     /etc/cron.daily )
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )

As it won't run I tried to install anacron but without any changes.

Why does it run the hourly scripts but not the daily ones?

Many thanks to all of you!

Answer 1

It might be, that one of your daily-scripts is misbehaving. Try running them manually. I removed the logwatch package and the cron.daily job and it worked again.

This is my /etc/crontab

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
16 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
12 2 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
41 1 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
9 3 30 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
#

try running the daily like so

 run-parts -v --report /etc/cron.daily

you can also use --list or --test for more output. In my case I removed the misbehaving script and the daily job worked again