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Old 07-24-2011
Running Cron -- same time jobs
Hi
Is it possible to run different cron jobs at the same time? It appears that when I run ones at 15 min granularity that they may prevent ones running later in the day.
Should crons run at same time have impact on one another?
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Old 07-24-2011
You can run concurrent cron jobs for same user and other users same time same date no problem at all
I see no problem running multiple cron jobs simultaneously . also you can post /var/adm/cron/log output here for diagnosis
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Old 07-24-2011
Tks, however i have no cron dir in /var/adm.
Im running SunOS alps 5.10 Generic_125100-05 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200
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Old 07-24-2011
Cron log on Solaris is located under /var/cron.
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Old 07-24-2011
thanks--got it. so if there is any conflict or cron cant run it will log it in /var/cron/log ??. WHats difference between the ">" & "<" symbols?
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