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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) cron jobs running, but not... Post 302250893 by yodomino6 on Friday 24th of October 2008 02:13:50 PM
Old 10-24-2008
cron jobs running, but not...
I have a cron job set up to run a script on my Leopard Server every night. The job is set up as root, and when I run the script manually, it runs fine.
The problem is that it is not doing anything when it runs at night. In the cron log, it says it ran, but did not output the results to the file it is supposed to or accomplish it's task (and does when I run it manually).
I originally thought the problem was that I wasn't running it as root, which would have made sense, but it doesn't run as root either.

Any ideas out there?
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

atrm

atrm(1) 							   User Commands							   atrm(1)

NAME

       atrm - remove jobs spooled by at or batch

SYNOPSIS

       atrm [-afi] [ [ job  #] [user...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The atrm utility removes delayed-execution jobs that were created with the at(1) command, but have not yet executed. The list of these jobs
       and associated job numbers can be displayed by using atq(1).

       atrm removes each job-number you specify, and/or all jobs belonging to the user you specify, provided that you own the indicated jobs.

       You can only remove jobs belonging to other users if you have solaris.jobs.admin privileges.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -a	All. Removes all unexecuted jobs that were created by the current user. If invoked by the privileged user, the entire  queue  will
		be flushed.

       -f	Force.	All information regarding the  removal of the specified jobs is suppressed.

       -i	Interactive. atrm asks if a job should be removed. If you respond with a y, the job will be removed.

FILES

       /var/spool/cron/atjobs	       spool area for at jobs

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       at(1), atq(1), auths(1), cron(1M), auth_attr(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    13 Aug 1999 							   atrm(1)
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