hello all,

I have a shell script and I need to schedule it in crontab, I have the next line:

06 16 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /usr/bin/ksh /path/path/name.sh > /path/path/name.log

first, I scheduled from Monday to Friday but it doesn't run, the log file is empty.. any idea why is causing this?

note: my shell works if I run it manually.

Thanks!

is crond running?

could you explain me crond?, I am new on this and I haven't heard about crond, how can I check if crond is running? thank you

crond is the service that runs the cronjobs. If its not running your jobs wont run either.

What OS you using?

Post output of:

SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12


$ ps aux | grep crond
usage: ps [ -aAdeflcjLPy ] [ -o format ] [ -t termlist ]
[ -u userlist ] [ -U userlist ] [ -G grouplist ]
[ -p proclist ] [ -g pgrplist ] [ -s sidlist ]
'format' is one or more of:
user ruser group rgroup uid ruid gid rgid pid ppid pgid sid taskid
pri opri pcpu pmem vsz rss osz nice class time etime stime
f s c lwp nlwp psr tty addr wchan fname comm args projid project

Ok, Im not sure of the command in SunOS.

you need to figure out how to the the ps command

This is what works on HP-UX:
But not sure if thats correct on SunOS

I tried the last command and I got this:

$ ps -ef | grep crond
user 19096 7926 0 17:44:58 pts/4 0:00 grep crond