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Tim Wilson wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I've got a Debian box here that doesn't want to run cron jobs. I've got
> the standard Debian cron package installed and the daemon is running.
> Neither jobs created in crontab nor the shortcuts in /etc/cron.* run at
> all.
> 
> Any ideas? I've restarted cron but that doesn't help. I'm not sure what
> to try next.
> 

Just an idea...

Debian won't run scripts that have a file extension, eg., "cronjob.sh"
won't run, "cronjob" will.

I've been bitten by that one on more than one occasion.  If that's not
the issue then I'm not sure what may be happening.  Permissions perhaps?

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