The cronjobs on an AlmaLinux 9 64bit system are not running.
I added 2 simple jobs to the crontab, which run fine from the command line:
[root@sendy ~]# crontab -e
* * * * * date > ~/cron.log 2>~/cron.log
* * * * * env > ~/env.output
It doesn't matter if I change the schedule (every 5 mins, every hour) or if I only have 1 record in the crontab, they won't execute.
crond is running:
[root@sendy ~]# service crond status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status crond.service
● crond.service - Command Scheduler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2023-02-21 08:12:15 UTC; 1min 22s ago
Main PID: 110386 (crond)
CGroup: /system.slice/crond.service
├─110376 /usr/sbin/crond -n
├─110377 /usr/sbin/crond -n
├─110386 /usr/sbin/crond -n
└─110404 /usr/sbin/crond -n
Feb 21 08:12:15 sendy systemd[1]: Started Command Scheduler.
Feb 21 08:12:15 sendy crond[110386]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.5.7)
Feb 21 08:12:15 sendy crond[110386]: (CRON) INFO (Syslog will be used instead of sendmail.)
Feb 21 08:12:15 sendy crond[110386]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 8% if used.)
Feb 21 08:12:15 sendy crond[110386]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Feb 21 08:12:15 sendy crond[110386]: (CRON) INFO (@reboot jobs will be run at computer's startup.)
There are some delayed messages in the error log
[root@sendy ~]# tail -f /var/log/cron
Feb 21 08:18:01 sendy crond[110436]: (root) INFO (Job execution of per-minute job scheduled for 08:16 delayed into subsequent minute 08:18. Skipping job run.)
Feb 21 08:19:01 sendy crond[110443]: (root) INFO (Job execution of per-minute job scheduled for 08:17 delayed into subsequent minute 08:19. Skipping job run.)
Feb 21 08:20:01 sendy crond[110449]: (root) INFO (Job execution of per-minute job scheduled for 08:18 delayed into subsequent minute 08:20. Skipping job run.)
Feb 21 08:20:01 sendy crond[110450]: (root) INFO (Job execution of per-minute job scheduled for 08:18 delayed into subsequent minute 08:20. Skipping job run.)
Feb 21 08:21:01 sendy crond[110470]: (root) INFO (Job execution of per-minute job scheduled for 08:19 delayed into subsequent minute 08:21. Skipping job run.)
Feb 21 08:21:01 sendy crond[110469]: (root) INFO (Job execution of per-minute job scheduled for 08:19 delayed into subsequent minute 08:21. Skipping job run.)
Feb 21 08:22:01 sendy crond[110479]: (root) INFO (Job execution of per-minute job scheduled for 08:20 delayed into subsequent minute 08:22. Skipping job run.)
Feb 21 08:22:01 sendy crond[110478]: (root) INFO (Job execution of per-minute job scheduled for 08:20 delayed into subsequent minute 08:22. Skipping job run.)
I have no idea why this isn't working. I also can't find anything about these delayed messages on Google and how to fix them.
