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: I have never heard of any bugs or problems with cron entries dissapearing.

Hi

I am getting the output while executing the follow script.

1.
$ grep backupscripts /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
grep: can't open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/oracle
grep: can't open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/oracle10
grep: can't open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/oracleas
grep: can't open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
grep: can't open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/sys
grep: can't open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp

2. $ crontab -l oracle10 ----> user name
$


3. cd /var/spool/cron/crontabs

$ ls -lrt

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 750 Jan 9 2006 lp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 190 Jan 9 2006 adm
-r-------- 1 root uucp 404 Jan 9 2006 uucp
-r-------- 1 root sys 1014 Jan 10 2006 sys
-r-------- 1 root oinstall 33 Jul 11 16:58 oracleas
-r-------- 1 root other 1799 Nov 27 14:39 root
-r-------- 1 root oinstall 244 Nov 30 17:26 oracle
-r-------- 1 root dba 0 Dec 1 15:02 oracle10

Is there anythging wrong from myside?

Please advice.

Prashanth