Mike Starke said:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:46:47AM -0700, Jim wrote:
> /_I have a cronjob that never seems to start at the given time what is
> the /_best way to determine if it actually starts and if not why?
> /_
>
> I always issue the command 'crontab -e', enter my jobs and info
> and I am off and running. Do the same as root if needed. Set under my
> username, all of the output gets email to me. You may also want to
> ensure the MAILTO=xxxxx variable is set in your crontab.

I believe that cron in Debian just recently got switched to run under cron
instead of root.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200308/msg00160.html

-Derek