Solaris

No Kishore,

there is no result while executing this command

$ fg
ksh: fg: no such job

Prashanth

if there are stopped jobs it should show right?!!!!
Why its not showing anything and
we are getting the message"There are stopped jobs"
i couldn't understand.

Yeah Kishore , I cant understand whats happening....

see the o/p in the same session :

$ crontab -l
00 00 * * 6 /gdbuat4/backupscripts/weeklyexp10g.sh >> /tmp/export.log
$ fg
crontab -e
$ ps -ef | grep oracle10 | grep crontab | grep -v grep
$ ps -ef | grep oracle10 | grep crontab
oracle10 25397 24446 0 15:27:20 pts/3 0:00 grep crontab
$ fg
ksh: fg: no such job
$ fg
ksh: fg: no such job
$ crontab -l
03 12 * * * /gdbuat4/backupscripts/dailyexp10g.sh >> /tmp/export.log
35 15 * * * /gdbuat4/backupscripts/sample.sh >> /tmp/export1.log

$ crontab -l
03 12 * * * /gdbuat4/backupscripts/dailyexp10g.sh >> /tmp/export.log
35 15 * * * /gdbuat4/backupscripts/sample.sh >> /tmp/export1.log

$ fg
ksh: fg: no such job

grial, your comments please

How are you saving changes? pressing CRTL-Z?????
If you are using vi as EDITOR, just save changes pressing the following keys:
<ESC>:wq<INTRO>


I think the problem is that you're not used to vi

To list your "current stopped jobs", use the "jobs" command.
man jobs
for more info.

No grial

I am saving using ESC>:wq<INTRO>

thats why i was able to check the changed entry in the crontab while issuing command crontab -l right!

Hey Prashanth

You didnt kill the crontab process.
Whats displayed there is the command process you have typed.

"oracle10 25397 24446 0 15:27:20 pts/3 0:00 grep crontab"

You killed pid &ppid i.e 25397 and 24446 right.They are not the right ones.
We didnt get the process id for crontab process.so we have to get the pid for crontab first.ok.

And regarding fg

You got the output for fg.
At the first attempt it showed as below.

$ fg
crontab -e

Dat means still this process is running at the background.it is not killed.
Am i right grial.

Thanks
Kishor