We have a number of scripts setup to run in the /etc/cron.daily directory
- some of them show evidence of being run at about the right time (files are archived/compressed and truncated), but others seem to be ignored.
Checking both /var/log/cron.log
and /var/log/syslog
lists none of the daily jobs - only the hourly (and a couple of 20 minute jobs).
Is there some other log somewhere? The crontab contains these lines:
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 4 * * * 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 )