topic Re: Crontab Issue !! in Operating System - HP-UX

Crontab Issue !!

titu — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:23:09 GMT

Hi all

I had a weird issue in my system.

cron stopped and it did not give anything in cron log as well as in syslog.

I am wondering why it happened and where to look why it stopped.

I have latest patch in my system.

Thanks in advance
Titu

Re: Crontab Issue !!

Ganesan R — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:30:54 GMT

Hi,

look at /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

and /var/adm/cron/log

some time root or var filesystem full also may cause this kind issues.

Re: Crontab Issue !!

Robert Salter — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:27:21 GMT

Maybe someone killed the wrong pid. Did you recently reboot your server? Check the /etc/rc.config.d/cron file to see if cron is suppose to start after a reboot.

Beers,

Bob

Re: Crontab Issue !!

T G Manikandan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:30:46 GMT

you can check /etc/syslog.conf file to see what is being logged with cron log and syslog.log

Please check.

Re: Crontab Issue !!

titu — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:58:06 GMT

I have root and var file system empty in my system.

I have not received any mail in the mail box of root or any user.

Thanks

Re: Crontab Issue !!

titu — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:50:10 GMT

There were 2 processes.

I used kill -9 to kill the process.

if process is killed , Would this kill cron?

Thanks

Re: Crontab Issue !!

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:02:58 GMT

Hi:

> I have root and var file system empty in my system.

By "empty" I assume that you mean you have free space in these filesystems, not that they are devoid of things like your 'crontabs' in '/var/spool/cron/crontabs'.

> I used kill -9 to kill the process. if process is killed , Would this kill cron?

No, but using a 'kill -9' can have other side effects. Kill-9 should be a last resort only.

Regards!

...JRF...

Thanks

Re: Crontab Issue !!

VVS — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:06:50 GMT

HI

Check whether cron process (/usr/sbin/cron) is running
# ps -ef | grep cron

If no , then start it with command
#/sbin/init.d/cron start

Regards,
VVS