topic Re: at problem in Operating System - HP-UX

at problem

Adrian Hannelly — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:05:12 GMT

Hello I am having an "at" problem.

The at command seem to work and adds a file into /var/spool/cron/atjobs however the cron daemon dosen't appear to be picking them up is there anything I need to set for cron to do this?

Re: at problem

Michael Tully — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:12:41 GMT

No, as long as the cron process is running, it should run. Have a look at the /var/adm/cron/log for your entry. Make sure that the command your running has executable permissions.

Re: at problem

Sunil Sharma_1 — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:19:07 GMT

Hi,

Only requiment is cron daemon should be running.

Try to give full path of cmd/script which you are tring to run from at.
and see cron log file (/var/adm/cron/log).

Sunil

Re: at problem

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:39:59 GMT

ps -ef | grep cron

If you get nothing

/sbin/init.d/cron start

check ps again

For permanent startup, check /etc/rc.config.d/cron

CRON=1 to auto start the daemon-

SEP

Re: at problem

Adrian Hannelly — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:43:43 GMT

I doesn't appear to be picking them up as it is leaving the files in /var/spool/cron/atjobs. I have since learn't that the previous admin managed to delete everything below /var/spool (don't ask) would this affect at?

Re: at problem

Adrian Hannelly — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:09:34 GMT

Thank for all the help guys.

What the problem was the previous admin deleted everything below /var/spool/ and then manual recreated all directories.

This didn't affect cron but it appears to have effected the "at" functionality of cron. All that was needed in the end was a stop start of cron and we are back in action.