Script Start (manually/automatic)

[chogger]

Hello everyone,
I have a very strange problem with a simple script. If I start it by hand

/squid/logrotate

it worls perfect.

If I put it into /etc/crontab it doesn't work. All files have 777 rights.

crontab

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name command to be executed
0 23 * * * root /squid/logrotate

logrotate script

#!/bin/sh


/usr/sbin/logrotate -v /squid/logrotate.conf > /squid/var/logs/logrotate.log 2>&1
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "Squid Logrotate exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0

OS is CentOS 6.4

Output in /var/logs/messages

Oct 17 23:00:01 proxy01-be logrotate: Squid Logrotate exited abnormally with [1]

The logrotate.log is empty but last edited at 23 o clock

Please help me, I am totally clueless

 

[arochester]

Did you run? crontab -e

What happens if you run? crontab -l

http://www.pixelstech.net/article/1339424625-Create-cron-job-on-CentOS

 

[chogger]

crontab -e output is:

no crontab for root - using an empty one

But as said earlier I see that the os tried to start the task? Should I try to add it through crontab -e ?

 

[arochester]

Yes. Try it.