CRON DOWN

[Cesar Salas Araujo]

Hi!
I have a problem with cron daemon:
My OS is a HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/800 and,
sometimes without a reason, process cron is down.
Is very important that cron runs all time but
I didn't found the cause why cron fails.

Could somebody help me, please?

Thanks in advance . . .

[Ken Hubnik_2]

Check to cron log /var/adm/cron/log

[Pete Randall]

Check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and /var/adm/cron/log for any pertinent messages.


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

Every once in a while cron will disappear without a trace.

If it happens once, ignore it.

If it happens regularly, something, perhaps a cron job itself is killing the daemon.

There should be evidence in the cron log.

SEP

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
check if latest patch is installed:

Patch Name: PHCO_26562

Patch Description: s700_800 11.11 at(1)/cron(1M)/crontab(1) patch



HTH,
Massimo

[Ian Dennison_1]

cron also can email details of cron failures to the root mailbox on unix. Try checking there as well.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062758962

Date: 5/24/02
Document description: HP-UX: cron daemon dies unexpectedly
Document id: 2200281063


Robert-Jan.

[Enrico P.]

Hi,
is the cron down after reboot?
In this case check in the
/etc/rc.config.d/cron
file for the CRON variable.

Enrico.

[Tim Sanko]

You might want to restart cron first, and then worry about the cause.

/sbin/init.d/cron start

If there are real cron problems, you might start by searching for a core file and then
analysing it when done...

Tim

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Check the logs:
/var/adm/cron/log
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Check the patch version of your cron
maybe you need to patch your cron.

Caesar