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Operating Systems AIX Crontab issue Post 302518711 by h@foorsa.biz on Sunday 1st of May 2011 12:28:38 PM
Old 05-01-2011
Crontab issue
Hi all,
I'm having a problem with a crontab entry execution for a non root user.
AIX version 5.3
Code:
user@host ~ $ oslevel -r
5300-10

cron status
Code:
user@host ~ $ ps -ef | grep cron
    root  377044       1   0   Oct 27      -  0:22 /usr/sbin/cron

cron entry for user

Code:
user@host ~ $ crontab -l
15 8 * * * * /home/user/checkout.sh

long listing for the script
Code:
user@host ~ $ ls -l checkout.sh
-r-x------    1 user   staff          1530 Apr 29 22:43 checkout.sh

viewing log /var/adm/cron/log
Code:
host:/>grep user /var/adm/cron/log
user    : CMD ( * /home/user/checkout.sh ) : PID ( 909476 ) : Sat Apr 30 08:15:00 2011
user... User unknown
user    : CMD ( * /home/user/checkout.sh ) : PID ( 1736796 ) : Sun May  1 08:15:00 2011
user... User unknown

content of /var/adm/cron.allow
Code:
host:/>cat /var/adm/cron/cron.allow
root
user

Code:
/var/adm/cron/cron.deny

has no entries at all

after all the script doesn't run and exit with above log entry
what's i'm missing
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

strclean

strclean(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      strclean(1M)

NAME

       strclean - STREAMS error logger cleanup program

SYNOPSIS

       strclean [-a age] [-d logdir]

DESCRIPTION

       strclean  is used to clean up the STREAMS error logger directory on a regular basis (for example, by using cron. By default, all files with
       names matching error.* in  /var/adm/streams that have not been modified in the last three days are removed.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -aage	       The maximum age in days for a log file can be changed using the -a option.

       -dlogdir        A directory other than /var/adm/streams can be specified using the -d option.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: A sample of using the strclean command.

       This example has the same result as running  strclean with no arguments:

       example%  strclean -d /var/adm/streams -a 3

FILES

       /var/adm/streams/error.*

ATTRIBUTES

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

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

SEE ALSO

       cron(1M), strerr(1M), attributes(5)

       STREAMS Programming Guide

NOTES

       strclean is typically run from cron on a daily or weekly basis.

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