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

cron problem

Achille Costabile — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 02:55:22 GMT

Hi all,

I am having problems with my cron jobs. For about a day now, a few of my cron jobs have been failing. Within the cron log file, besides some cron jobs within the script, it has been stating rc=1. Ever since this has appeared some of the crob files have been failing.

I know that it has to do with comething about return code. I have stopped and retsrated cron, and it still seems to appear. I was wondering i anyone else had any suffestionsm as to how to fix this problem.

Thanks
Achille

Re: cron problem

Jaimin Parikh — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 03:55:02 GMT

Hi,

Have you changed system time/time zone in near past?

Check the system run level state?Any changes to cron files recently?

If it is possible for you to restart the server I would suggest try doing that once.

-Jaimin Parikh

Re: cron problem

Karthik_2 — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 04:10:22 GMT

Are the same cron jobs that are failing everytime or jobs are failing at random?.
Also make sure that not more than one cron job is running.
You can checkup /var/spool/cron/crontabs to see if any one has edited the crontab file recently.
Even if u change the date backwards you cant predict cron behaviour.

Karthik

Re: cron problem

Achille Costabile — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 05:04:59 GMT

Thanks for the repsonses.

The cron files have not been changed in a long time. The rc=1 message is literally happening to every cron job now. Any other help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: cron problem

James A. Donovan — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 06:50:48 GMT

Check out this thread, and check for undefined environment variables in your cron job scripts.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x1e6037f45ef7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html