topic Re: Cron Log Error Msg in Operating System - HP-UX

Cron Log Error Msg

Chris J. Solarczyk — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:28:16 GMT

I've noticed the following message in the cron log periodically:

"! unexpected pid returned 5058 (ignored)"

Server is an N Class HPUX 11. Any ideas why this is appearing? Cron still seems to be running OK.

Re: Cron Log Error Msg

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:31:35 GMT

Hi
Can you tie the time of this error to a cron event ?

Paula

Re: Cron Log Error Msg

Craig Rants — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:33:29 GMT

What is the cron job that returned the pid error? Standard format looks like the entry below. Command, Start Time, Stop Time. Each one has an associated pid, search your log for the pid and you will probably find what command had the problem. I've seen that error before and it isn't going to kill anything.

> CMD: date >> /var/adm/messages; /sbin/dmesg - >> /var/adm/messages
> root 2248 c Fri Sep 21 16:30:02 MDT 2001
< root 2248 c Fri Sep 21 16:30:02 MDT 2001

GL,
C

Re: Cron Log Error Msg

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:39:22 GMT

Hi Chris:

There is an old (1993) Technical Knowledge Base entry that describes this situation. The message is generated for short-running jobs that exit before 'cron' has a change to register their pid. Perhaps this helps.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Cron Log Error Msg

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:40:00 GMT

Hi Chris,

check you patch level. Also take a look at this thread,

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=4b615af00befdd3dd1/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000019596519

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Cron Log Error Msg

Chris J. Solarczyk — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:48:42 GMT

Sanjay was right on the money. The error message appears whenever we run "at -m". Apparently this message can be ignored. Check his link for more info.