I have installed a few crons on a machine. But for some reason the crons just don't run. I have checked the permissions on the files and also restarted the cron daemon. But it doesn't seem ti help. Can anyone suggest any other things I can do to get it running again?
And check your mail; usually you get an email with the output from a command if it generated any (such as when there was an error, with any decently implemented command).
What OS are you using? I remember chasing just this problem a while ago, having switched from Solaris to Suse. On Solaris just dropping a file into /var/spool/cron worked, but on Linux you have to get crond to reread it by