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Old 01-14-2009
Crontab is not running!!!

Hi experts,

need your helpo.

after editing the crontab while saving the file it says-


"/tmp/crontabRlaauT" 1 line, 77 characters
cron may not be running - call your system administrator
[root @ unixserver]



And i checked after certain time. script in cron is not running. I got a mail in user saying Cronjob Terminated. I am using Solari 9.

br//purple
# 2  
Old 01-14-2009
Well cron was not running.

i restatred by /etc/init.d/cron start. Its okay now.

root 23559 1 0 19:24:29 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 24299 24019 0 19:41:17 pts/1 0:00 grep cron
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