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# 1  
Old 07-22-2010
redhat 5.2 tikanga crond running but not reading crontab file
Issue:crond is running, can even restart it and /var/log/cron shows it starting. The /etc/crontab file is correct as compared to another machine. I set the crontab file to enter a datestamp into a file under /tmp every minute. Thing is, the crontab file is not being read or cron is not working correctly. I have deleted the crontab entries and retried entering them in again, still not working. No errors either in /var/log/messages.

Anyone know what I can do to get cron working as it should again?

---------- Post updated at 02:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:33 PM ----------

correction, when crond is restarted it does read /etc/crontab, yet it never runs anything in that file.
# 2  
Old 07-22-2010
Post the entry of your crontab and your script.
# 3  
Old 07-22-2010
Code:
00 01 * * * /opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/cancelauth.sh >> opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/logs/CancelAuth.log
00 01 * * * /opt/DailySettlementJob/DailySettlement.sh >> /opt/DailySettlementJob/logs/dailysettlement.log
00 01 * * * /opt/MonthlySettlementJob/MonthlySettlement.sh >> /opt/MonthlySettlementJob/logs/monthlysettlement.log
0 * * * *  /home/smeka1/shellscripts/monitoradapterlogs.sh erros_log.txt
30 * * * * /usr/bin/logSetfaclScript.sh >> /tmp/logsetfacl.log

Last edited by Scott; 07-22-2010 at 07:30 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 4  
Old 07-22-2010
what is the output?

Code:
 
# tail -f /var/log/cron | grep CMD

# 5  
Old 07-22-2010
there is none. should i stop/start it and tail the log?

---------- Post updated at 02:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:27 PM ----------

i'm just gonna post the last 40 or so lines from that log:

Code:
Jul 22 12:04:05 bmasnq02 crontab[10599]: (root) LIST (root)
Jul 22 12:05:01 bmasnq02 crond[27141]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
Jul 22 12:05:01 bmasnq02 crond[27141]: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server ldap://sdssnq02/ after 1 attempt
Jul 22 12:07:06 bmasnq02 anacron[32759]: Job `cron.weekly' started
Jul 22 12:08:18 bmasnq02 anacron[32759]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated
Jul 22 12:08:18 bmasnq02 anacron[32759]: Normal exit (2 jobs run)
Jul 22 12:12:30 bmasnq02 crontab[21242]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:13:28 bmasnq02 crontab[21242]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:14:13 bmasnq02 crontab[22869]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:14:28 bmasnq02 crontab[22869]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:14:49 bmasnq02 crond[23432]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
Jul 22 12:15:49 bmasnq02 crontab[24522]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:15:58 bmasnq02 crontab[24522]: (root) REPLACE (root)
Jul 22 12:15:58 bmasnq02 crontab[24522]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:16:01 bmasnq02 crond[23432]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root)
Jul 22 12:16:19 bmasnq02 crontab[25143]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:16:43 bmasnq02 crontab[25143]: (root) REPLACE (root)
Jul 22 12:16:43 bmasnq02 crontab[25143]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:17:01 bmasnq02 crond[23432]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root)
Jul 22 12:17:19 bmasnq02 crontab[26292]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:17:31 bmasnq02 crontab[26292]: (root) REPLACE (root)
Jul 22 12:17:31 bmasnq02 crontab[26292]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:17:38 bmasnq02 crontab[26834]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:18:01 bmasnq02 crond[23432]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root)
Jul 22 12:19:05 bmasnq02 crontab[28460]: (root) LIST (root)
Jul 22 12:19:14 bmasnq02 crontab[28461]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:19:21 bmasnq02 crontab[26834]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:19:24 bmasnq02 crontab[28461]: (root) REPLACE (root)
Jul 22 12:19:24 bmasnq02 crontab[28461]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:19:28 bmasnq02 crontab[28466]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:19:30 bmasnq02 crond[28520]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
Jul 22 12:20:00 bmasnq02 crontab[28466]: (root) REPLACE (root)
Jul 22 12:20:00 bmasnq02 crontab[28466]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:20:01 bmasnq02 crond[28520]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root)
Jul 22 12:20:33 bmasnq02 crontab[29617]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:20:37 bmasnq02 crontab[29617]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 22 12:23:57 bmasnq02 crontab[969]: (root) LIST (root)

Last edited by Scott; 07-22-2010 at 07:30 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 6  
Old 07-22-2010
how do add the entries in crontab file ?
Code:
crontab -e

or
Code:
vim /var/spool/cron/root

# 7  
Old 07-22-2010
crontab -e, but if i cat the /var/spool/cron/root i see the same thing in there. I actually noticed a couple of entries missing either the full directory or a preaviling "/". here is the output of both now:
Code:
crontab -l:
00 01 * * * /opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/cancelauth.sh >> /opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/logs/CancelAuth.log
00 01 * * * /opt/DailySettlementJob/DailySettlement.sh >> /opt/DailySettlementJob/logs/dailysettlement.log
00 01 * * * /opt/MonthlySettlementJob/MonthlySettlement.sh >> /opt/MonthlySettlementJob/logs/monthlysettlement.log
0 * * * *  /home/smeka1/shellscripts/monitoradapterlogs.sh >> /home/smeka1/shellscripts/erros_log.txt
20,21,30 * * * * /usr/bin/logSetfaclScript.sh >> /tmp/logsetfacl.log

cat /var/spool/cron/root:

00 01 * * * /opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/cancelauth.sh >> /opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/logs/CancelAuth.log
00 01 * * * /opt/DailySettlementJob/DailySettlement.sh >> /opt/DailySettlementJob/logs/dailysettlement.log
00 01 * * * /opt/MonthlySettlementJob/MonthlySettlement.sh >> /opt/MonthlySettlementJob/logs/monthlysettlement.log
0 * * * *  /home/smeka1/shellscripts/monitoradapterlogs.sh >> /home/smeka1/shellscripts/erros_log.txt
20,21,30 * * * * /usr/bin/logSetfaclScript.sh >> /tmp/logsetfacl.log

Last edited by Scott; 07-22-2010 at 07:31 PM.. Reason: Code tags
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