Hi all,

I scheduled daily export backup script in my crontab on yesterday.
Today I noticed that the daily export doesnt occured.

More, while issuing command crontab -l I am not finding any scheduled jobs which I scheduled.

As this is new server, I executed following commands to schedule a job yday.

export EDITOR=vi
crontab -e

30 21 * * * /u07/backupscripts/dailyexp10g.sh

Today:
$ crontab -l
$

Nothing was there.

What is the problem and How I has to fix it?

Please advice.

Prashanth.g.s.

You type crontab -e, it open editor to edit crontab. After you enter your crontab line, you need to type shift: wq to save your editing line. Then crontab will take action. It seems that you didn't save crontab file. The crontab didn't take any action. Try again.

Or you ran crontab as a different user..

Its not ctrl: its just : which is shift; I normally use shift; x

Tornado:

Thanks. That was typo. It should be: "shift: wq" to save file if you use vi editor.

No, I saved it properly. Bcoz I saw lot of times after scheduling the job.

crontab -l

Well if you did save it correctly and you saw the entry in your crontab then either 1) someone has removed it or 2) you ran crontab -l as a different user

To make sure it isn't under another users crontab run this:

grep backupscripts /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*