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I am new to Linux. I put a file in cron.daily to test, but it never got execute, access mod is 755 for the test file.

crontab file has the default entry of: -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1

cron daemon is there. I can start a "at" job.

What do I miss ?

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This file that you've placed is a bash script? And what does the logs say? – Andrejs Cainikovs Jun 8 '11 at 17:05
What does the actual cron script look like? – slashdot Jun 9 '11 at 14:06

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Your script has .sh suffix doesn't it? ;)

run-parts doesn't run anything with any suffix. Files with suffix are silently ignored.

This is a documented but utterly stupid "feature":

If neither the --lsbsysinit option nor the --regex option is given then the names must consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, dig‐ its, underscores, and hyphens.

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Actually no. The file name is test-it and it has one line in there just say "touch /tmp/x " – Ed Kwan Jun 9 '11 at 14:44
Try running run-crons manually and look in it's man page. See if it has a verbose flag or strace it. – jkj Jun 11 '11 at 0:06

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