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# 15  
Old 04-12-2012
Please post the output from this command while logged in as root:
It should be about 50 lines long.
Code:
/usr/sbin/sysdef

And this one:
Code:
sar -v 2 10

And the one we asked for earlier:
Code:
ls -lad /var/adm/cron/cron.allow
cat /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

When you posted grep report /usr/adm/cron/log were all the other night time jobs containing the word report missing too?
What's the timestamp on the cron log?:
Code:
ls -lad /usr/adm/cron/log

What Operating System version do you have?
Code:
uname -a

Are you up to date with HP-UX patches?
Last edited by methyl; 04-12-2012 at 10:02 AM..
# 16  
Old 04-12-2012
Code:
NAME                      VALUE       BOOT        MIN-MAX        UNITS   FLAGS
acctresume                    4          -       -100-100                -
acctsuspend                   2          -       -100-100                -
allocate_fs_swapmap           0          -           -                   -
bufpages                 251191          -          0-           Pages   -
create_fastlinks              0          -           -                   -
dbc_max_pct                   6          -           -                   -
dbc_min_pct                   5          -           -                   -
default_disk_ir               0          -           -                   -
dskless_node                  0          -          0-1                  -
eisa_io_estimate            768          -           -                   -
file_pad                     10          -          0-                   -
fs_async                      0          -          0-1                  -
hpux_aes_override             0          -           -                   -
maxdsiz                  262144          -          0-655360     Pages   -
maxdsiz_64bit           2097152          -        256-1048576    Pages   -
maxfiles                   2048          -         30-2048               -
maxfiles_lim               4096          -         30-2048               -
maxssiz                   32768          -          0-655360     Pages   -
maxssiz_64bit            262144          -        256-1048576    Pages   -
maxswapchunks                 0          -          1-16384              -
maxtsiz                   24576          -          0-655360     Pages   -
maxtsiz_64bit            262144          -        256-1048576    Pages   -
maxuprc                    3682          -          3-                   -
maxvgs                       10          -           -                   -
msgmap               -536870911          -          3-                   -
nbuf                     333777          -          0-                   -
nfile                     65536          -         14-                   -
ninode                    34816          -         14-                   -
no_lvm_disks                  0          -           -                   -
nproc                      4200          -         10-                   -
npty                         60          -          1-                   -
nstrpty                      60          -           -                   -
nswapdev                     10          -          1-25                 -
nswapfs                      10          -          1-25                 -
public_shlibs                 1          -           -                   -
remote_nfs_swap               0          -           -                   -
rtsched_numpri               32          -           -                   -
sema                 -536870911          -          0-1                  -
shmem                -536870911          -          0-1                  -
shmmni                      512          -          3-1024               -
streampipes                   0          -          0-                   -
swapmem_on                    1          -           -                   -
swchunk                    2048          -       2048-16384      kBytes  -
timeslice                    10          -         -1-2147483648 Ticks   -
unlockable_mem                0          -          0-           Pages   -
mceldev[298]/ #

Code:
sar -v 2 10
HP-UX mceldev B.11.23 U ia64    04/12/12
14:36:47 text-sz  ov  proc-sz  ov  inod-sz  ov  file-sz  ov
14:36:49   N/A   N/A 627/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3865/65536 0
14:36:51   N/A   N/A 629/4200  0  1567/372426 0  3870/65536 0
14:36:53   N/A   N/A 627/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3865/65536 0
14:36:55   N/A   N/A 626/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3863/65536 0
14:36:57   N/A   N/A 626/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3863/65536 0
14:36:59   N/A   N/A 626/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3863/65536 0
14:37:01   N/A   N/A 629/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3869/65536 0
14:37:03   N/A   N/A 627/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3865/65536 0
14:37:05   N/A   N/A 626/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3863/65536 0
14:37:07   N/A   N/A 627/4200  0  1566/372426 0  3865/65536 0
mceldev[299]/ #

Code:
mceldev[299]/ #ls -lad /var/adm/cron/cron.allow
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin        bin             46 Nov 29 11:36 /var/adm/cron/cron.allow
mceldev[300]/ #cat /var/adm/cron/cron.allow
root
adm
uucp
bscsmig
ora10g
jmuchang
report
mceldev[301]/ #

and if I do
Code:
grep "report" /var/adm/cron/log

, I see everything , like all entries in the crontab -l

---------- Post updated at 03:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:08 PM ----------

Code:
$ grep "report" /var/adm/cron/log
>  CMD: /home/report/daily_open_amount.ksh > open_amount.log
>  report 20938 c Wed Apr 11 23:59:00 SAST 2012
<  report 20938 c Thu Apr 12 00:02:09 SAST 2012
>  CMD: /home/report/opn_amt_gestores_credito.ksh > opn_amt_gestores_credito.log
>  report 908 c Thu Apr 12 01:00:00 SAST 2012
<  report 908 c Thu Apr 12 01:07:08 SAST 2012
>  CMD: /home/report/duo_subscribers.ksh > duo_subscribers.log
>  report 7746 c Thu Apr 12 02:45:00 SAST 2012
<  report 7746 c Thu Apr 12 03:09:04 SAST 2012
>  CMD: /home/report/postpaid_subscribers.ksh > postpaid_subscribers.log
>  report 11615 c Thu Apr 12 03:45:00 SAST 2012
<  report 11615 c Thu Apr 12 03:49:50 SAST 2012
$

its hp-ux 11.23
# 17  
Old 04-12-2012
In the kernel nproc (maximum processes running on the system) is quite low at 4200 but maxuprc (maximum processes for one user) is high at 3682 . The sar shows that you have some leeway. It's not that.

If cron itself is sick we would expect messages like "queue max run limit reached" in /usr/adm/cron/log or other errors in /usr/adm/syslog/syslog.log and possibly in /var/mail/root .


Because the other jobs for account "report" ran we can eliminate expired password.

This is quite a mystery.



My best guess is that this is a HP-UX Trusted System and the account report has been restricted to certain hours of operation which don't include 13:00 .
# 18  
Old 04-12-2012
Hi

Its not a trusted system, and the user "report" was created using sam, no restriction whatsover!! I have change the entry like
Code:
00 1,13 * * * /home/report/opn_amt_gestores_credito.ksh > opn_amt_gestores_credito.log

and tomorrow at 13:00PM I will check again
# 19  
Old 04-12-2012
Probably a silly question, but did you originally have just the 01:00 definition?
If so, did you use crontab -e to edit the file, or did you just edit the file down /var/spool/cron/....... somewhere?
If you did then the cron deamon will not recognise the update.

A forced clock change with date -u can also confuse cron and you may need to stop/restart it.

If you feel that you should stop/restart it because of either of the above, check in /etc/inittab to see if it has been coded as a respawn process. I have this on AIX, but HP-UX seems to have it started with /sbin/rc2.d/S730cron. You would be best to stop start with this script if this is what you have too. Run it as root:-
Code:
#  sh /sbin/rc2.d/S730cron stop
#  sh /sbin/rc2.d/S730cron start

Of course, if this is not the case, please ignore me.




Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
# 20  
Old 04-12-2012
initially I had
Code:
00 1,13 * * * /home/report/opn_amt_gestores_credito.ksh > opn_amt_gestores_credito.log

I always use the crontab -e comand

I have not stop/start the cron deamon, because the other entries in the crontab are working fine. So I had no reason to stop/start the deamon using
Code:
/sbin/init.d/cron stop

# 21  
Old 04-12-2012
One more idea, check the crontab file for strange characters or missing linefeed or funny permissions:

Code:
sed -n l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/report

Normal lines will be displayed with a dollar sign to show where the end of line is.
And check permissions on the crontab file (should be 400)
Code:
ls -lad /var/spool/cron/crontabs/report


Ps. In post #1 you posted that you had stop/started the cron daemon, but not how this was done.
Last edited by methyl; 04-12-2012 at 12:18 PM..
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