Solaris

Hi all,

I am finding a issue with crontab that whatever the changes I made in the crontab file on the previous day wont be getting replicated today.

I saved the editor properly.

What would be the reason behind this.

For Eg: 03 12 * * * /gdbuat4/backupscripts/dailyexp10g.sh replaced to
00 00 * * 6 /gdbuat4/backupscripts/weeklyexp10g.sh Yesterday

But now I am finding only the old one.

03 12 * * * /gdbuat4/backupscripts/dailyexp10g.sh

The replaced one get disappeared. What would be the reason behind this?

Please explain.

OS: SunSolaris 5.8

Thanks and Regards,
Prashanth

Is that file system mirrored? Perhaps there's a problem with that, check it ("metastat" if you're using solstice).
Regards.

I was not aware of this metastat.

While typing metastat it gave some details like follows (as this ):

d138: Concat/Stripe
Size: 93762560 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase
emcpower52a 0 No
Stripe 1:
Device Start Block Dbase
emcpower53a 0 No
.......................

You have to check the status for the /var filesystem. To do so, try to find which is the appropriate device. For instance:

Code:

df -k /var

and then

Code:

metastat <device>

where <device> is the solstice device name without /dev/...
Have a look at metastat man page for more information.
Regards.

Hope this is mirrored.

Following are the output once the command was issued.

$ df -k /var
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d5 10327372 501516 9722583 5% /var
$ metastat /dev/md/dsk/d5
d5: Mirror
Submirror 0: d15
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d25
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 20972736 blocks

d15: Submirror of d5
State: Okay
Size: 20972736 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s5 0 No Okay


d25: Submirror of d5
State: Okay
Size: 20972736 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s5 0 No Okay

Hi

I found that when ever I am closing my current session the changes which i made are getting freezed. By opening another new session I cant find any changes which i made in the crontab entry.

What would be the reason behind this?

Please explain.

Prashanth.g.s.

What do you mean by "getting freezed"?
And, how are you updating the crontab? vi? crontab -e?

Anyway, try to force a synchronization (metasync and/or sync commands) before you exit your session...