I run cron in solaris 10 zone. One cron job which syncing files to nfs mounted on container, creates after finishing another cron proccess(/usr/sbin/cron), and after 100 existing cron proccesses next cron job will not start. It's too weird for me, I'm not able to solve this problem. Theoretically only one cron proccess is possible.

Thank You.

Check this post. Do you have a similar problem? The post has the solution.

I fixed the problem. Actually the problem was /var/spool/postfix/* ownership and permissions.

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Hi folks, I am new into working on UNIX. I wanted to run a .sh script daily(say at 10 AM). I came to know about setting a cron job for this. I did go through the tutorial on how to add a cron job. This is what i did:

vi update.cron

MAILTO="myid@yahoo.com"
0 10 * * * somescript.sh >>/dev/null 2>&1

then saved the file.
then i did,

crontab update.cron.

question is :
1. will this work from any directory, which i'll be working in or i need to go to a specific directory?

2.when i execute crontab -l it does lists the added job but at the stipulated time the script/cron job does not run.Is there any other format or updation in any file that i should be doing.

Thanks a lot in advance.