[Cialug] crontab not doing its thing

[Aaron Porter]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following line in cron that seems to not ever run.
>
> 46 03,11,19 * * * ntpdate -s 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org
>
> If I run the ntpdate command alone, it works.  I also fire off a backup
> script that runs successfully daily, so I have no idea what's wrong here.

Have you checked syslog? You should get cron run logs & errors there.
Also, if time is that important to you, why not run ntpd?