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# 1  
Old 08-02-2011
Crontab latest entry disappearing. plz help
The latest crontab entry is disappearing time and again on acceptance and production environment.
the same entry gets deleted.
any pointers to what might be causing this issue?
# 2  
Old 08-02-2011
I think you should give more details. does it delete any new entry? is it root cron or ordinary user? perhaps filesystem is full or something.
# 3  
Old 08-02-2011
I recall a Solaris audit bug that messed up cron updates. Are you up on patches?

Did someone make the crontab file not writable?
# 4  
Old 08-03-2011
it deletes the latest entry and that one particular entry only. the entry gets deleted after sometime and not immediately. the file system is not full. it is a non root users cron. the cron file is writable.
# 5  
Old 08-03-2011
If you put a comment line or a who-cares line in there, does it protect the last entry, or is this more a file restore?

This line logs every minute it has not been removed:

Code:
* * * * * date >/tmp/$LOGNAME.cron

# 6  
Old 08-04-2011
i put a comment line .. and the last entry didn't disappear.. it's been almost two days now.
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Old 08-04-2011
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