10-28-2009
cron / crontab issues - solaris 10
I am having some issues with my cronjobs not running in solaris 10.
Cron is running:
~> ps -ef | grep cron
root 202 1 0 Jul 18 ? 0:01 /usr/sbin/cron
bender 1646 1562 0 01:57:49 syscon 0:00 grep cron
crontab -l lists the cronjob and I *think* its in the correct format :P
~> crontab -l
#ident "@(#)bender 1.5 92/07/14 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.2 */
#
0 * * * * /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wootget2
Script works perfectly fine when run manually from terminal. It's just not executing by cron.
Also I had to create/edit the entry in
~> ls /var/spool/cron/crontabs/bender
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121 Oct 28 00:16 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/bender
because when i do a crontab -e
it seems to act wierd. When I do crontab -e
it automatically enters a # on a new line, then if i try to add a new line it gives me a ? and doesnt seem to do anything or recognize any commands.
~> crontab -e
121
0 * * * * /usr/local/testcron
?
^C
?
:q
?
:w
?
:x
?
^Z
[1]+ Stopped crontab -e
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