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Old 09-10-2012
Cronjob doesnot exist on the machine but running every sunday
I have deleted a particular cronjob couple of months ago but the jb is still running every sunday, even though it is not present in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file.

Please assist.
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Old 09-10-2012
What about other users' cron files?
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Old 09-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by CarloM
What about other users' cron files?
Everything else looks good
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Old 09-10-2012
What version of Solaris is this?

There should be a cron job (as part of the O/S) that is run periodically to re-read all crontabs to update any changes. If this job isn't there/running and the system hasn't been rebooted, then your Sunday cron job may still be in memory (as loaded at boot time).

Find out how to stop, then start, the cron process on your version of Solaris and stop and restart it from the command line.

Subsequently, you should investigate why cron changes aren't being updated and fix it. This update should be being done by another cron job which has either been deleted or commented out.
Last edited by hicksd8; 09-10-2012 at 05:32 PM..
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Old 09-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by hicksd8
What version of Solaris is this?

There should be a cron job (as part of the O/S) that is run periodically to re-read all crontabs to update any changes. If this job isn't there/running and the system hasn't been rebooted, then your Sunday cron job may still be in memory (as loaded at boot time).

Find out how to stop, then start, the cron process on your version of Solaris and stop and restart it from the command line.

Subsequently, you should investigate why cron changes aren't being updated and fix it. This update should be being done by another cron job which has either been deleted or commented out.
Thank you for your reply.

Quote:
unix@mytest00 >uname -a
SunOS mytest00 5.10 Generic_141414-01 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200

unix@mytest00 >uname -r
5.10

unix@mytest00 >isainfo -v
64-bit sparcv9 applications
asi_blk_init
32-bit sparc applications
asi_blk_init v8plus div32 mul32
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Old 09-10-2012
Okay, Solaris 10.....

Code:
svcadm restart cron

Also, re-read my previous post, I edited it.

If that doesn't stop the job running on Sunday's then I must agree with CarloM that it must be in another crontab somewhere (different user).
Last edited by hicksd8; 09-10-2012 at 05:48 PM..
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Old 09-11-2012
There are some system cron jobs in solaris machine ...but one more chance of this that ...there should be some others user's crontab enabled and they are running ...You have to check for other users ..!!
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