topic Clock Daemon Job 22583 in Operating System - HP-UX

Clock Daemon Job 22583

shikhar_1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:26:24 GMT

Hi,

/usr/sbin/cron(1M) Clock Daemon Job 22583 Cron command of root with pid 22583 failed (rc = 1)

Can anyone let me know what is this error and how to resolve this issue?

I have checked and found cron daemon is running.

#-> ps -ef | grep -i cron
root 3139 1 0 Jul 16 ? 1:55 /usr/sbin/cron
root 391 28273 1 18:25:01 pts/0 0:00 grep -i cron

Re: Clock Daemon Job 22583

Bill Hassell — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:09:45 GMT

cron simply runs jobs. If the job or script returns a non-zero value, cron will log the return code (rc=1 in your case). There's nothing wrong with cron. The job it ran is the failure. Because cron is a batch process, all of your cron jobs should log their steps and results. The most common problem is not establishing the required environment for a cron job. The job may work when you are logged in, but cron does not login for your job -- all the settings you need for the job must be in the job itself.

Since cron only logs PID (process id) for the failure, you'll need to compare the list of jobs from crontab -l and try to match the failure with the actual job.

Re: cron errors in /var/adm/cron/log

Dennis Handly — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:47:25 GMT

>Since cron only logs PID (process id) for the failure

cron(1m) logs the time start and end AND the script in /var/adm/cron/log.

This topic has an example:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Cron-log-showing-error-as-rc-1/m-p/5147074

> CMD: /home/abcd/script/auto_run_db_extract.ksh
> abcd 14909 c Fri Dec 12 19:01:00 CST 2008
< abcd 14909 c Fri Dec 12 19:02:08 CST 2008