topic Re: Enable logging crontab in Operating System - HP-UX

Enable logging crontab

titu — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:23:01 GMT

Hello All,

I want to enable logging in crotab file.

Crontab deamon having some issue.

I want to track so want to enable logging so that it can track.

Thanks
Titu

Re: Enable logging crontab

Pete Randall — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:30:17 GMT

Have you checked /var/adm/cron/log?

Pete

Re: Enable logging crontab

titu — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:36:09 GMT

I am not getting anything in the cron logs

Re: Enable logging crontab

Dennis Handly — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:54:27 GMT

>I am not getting anything in the cron logs

Nothing for any user?
Is cron(1M) running?

Re: Enable logging crontab

titu — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:06:19 GMT

The deamon is dying without logging anything in cron logs.

I want to enable any auditing/logging so that I can trace what making this deamon die.

Re: Enable logging crontab

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:07:27 GMT

Hi Titu:

Did you trim '/var/adm/cron/log' by renaming ('mv'ing) the active copy? If so, the daemon will continue to update the renamed file and not the one named '/var/adm/cron/log'.

To trim logs, you should either truncate them by redirecting '/dev/null' to them or copy ('cp') them as another name first.

Try restarting your 'cron' daemon:

# /sbin/init.d/cron stop
# /sbin/init.d/cron start

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Enable logging crontab

Dennis Handly — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:16:09 GMT

>The daemon is dying without logging anything in cron logs.

How about in syslog?
What HP-UX version are you using?

>I want to enable any auditing/logging so that I can trace what making this daemon die.

You find any core files?