Crontab problems with run-part
I have been so proud of myself for setting up a cron job on my home server that automatically updates all of the packages installed on it. That way I don't have to think about it, because inevitably I will forget. (A cron job is a program that run automatically at a particular time, usually a shell script but can be anything.) Well, I just noticed that this has not been working. I added some logging into the scripts, I ran the scripts manually, and I Googled everything I could think of. Nothing. I could find nothing that told me why my scripts were not running. I narrowed the problem down to a program call run-parts . It is a handy application that will run any executable file it finds in a folder. So for example run-parts /etc/scripts would run all the programs it found in the scripts folder in etc. Fair enough. So why weren't my scripts running. I confirmed that cron itself was running by adding a line to run my script directly, not through run-parts . I confirmed t
