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# 1  
Old 04-10-2008
Cron not running
Hello All,

I have installed a few crons on a machine. But for some reason the crons just don't run. I have checked the permissions on the files and also restarted the cron daemon. But it doesn't seem ti help. Can anyone suggest any other things I can do to get it running again?

Regards,
Garric
# 2  
Old 04-10-2008
Maybe there are errors the script(s) that are cronned. Do the things that are cronned run on their own without errors?
# 3  
Old 04-10-2008
No. To test, I am just running this

0 4 * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/test1
# 4  
Old 04-10-2008
Please post the output of anything in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log at around 4:00 AM and ps -ef | grep cron
# 5  
Old 04-10-2008
And check your mail; usually you get an email with the output from a command if it generated any (such as when there was an error, with any decently implemented command).
# 6  
Old 04-11-2008
What OS are you using? I remember chasing just this problem a while ago, having switched from Solaris to Suse. On Solaris just dropping a file into /var/spool/cron worked, but on Linux you have to get crond to reread it by
Code:
crontab <file> -u user

# 7  
Old 04-11-2008
Hi,

I dont have /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file. I checked in /var/log/messages and there seemed to be no log there as well.

Here is the output from the ps command

# ps -ef | grep cron
root 7292 1 0 Apr10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 29157 28970 0 18:02 pts/9 00:00:00 grep cron
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