01-22-2003
Cron job failure - passwd aging feature
I have a script running as a cron job in machine A . This script ftps some files everyday from machine A to machine B, and mails me about the status. It works fine for some days....and suddenly stops running. By viewing the log files, I see that the script itself was not invoked by cron on those days. I do not understand why the script wasnt invoked by cron.
Also, the login under which this script runs, has the password aging feature. i.e., every 1 month or so, I have to change my login password. Yesterday, when I logged into this id to debug this script, it prompted me to change my password. I changed the password and executed the script manually to verify things. It worked fine. And since then my script is invoked by cron perfectly. Will this password aging feature have any impact on my cron jobs?
M/c is Sun OS 5.7.
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uudemon(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual uudemon(4)
NAME
uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour, uudemon.poll - Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons
SYNOPSIS
These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
/usr/lib/uucp
DESCRIPTION
All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the scripts, remove
the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.
This script reports status to the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID (uucpa) or
root. This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1. This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background. This
script polls the systems listed in the /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file. The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script.
FILES
Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files. Contains the uucp file.
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1)
Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off
uudemon(4)