Cron Daemnon Problem

[User_10]

Hi

I am having 10 HP C3000 Workstations running with Hp Ux 11.11 and 11.00.I am facing a problem in running cron jobs.Cron daemon is not running.once i execute the corntab -e and saves it, i will receive a error message "cron may not be running - call your system administrator".
I have tried starting the service /sbin/init.d/cron start.But the result is same.Any patch is available for this cron issue?

Thanks in advance

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

check if cron indeed is running:

# ps -ef|grep -i cron

if not, run:
# /usr/sbin/cron

regards.

[renarios]

Hi,

What does your syslog say? Possible there's more information in that.
You could also open two shell sessions. One you start a tail -f of your syslog and in the other one you restart your cron.

Cheerio,

Renarios

[User_10]

Hi
The ps -ef | grep cron doesn't give any processes.i have tried running /usr/sbin/cron but it is not showing any thing

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

since ps do not capture any running cron daemon. u have to start it:

# /sbin/init.d/cron start
or
# /usr/sbin/cron

make u have permission to do so.

regards.

[Ermin Borovac]

Please post the output of

# ll /usr/sbin/cron; what /usr/sbin/cron; file /usr/sbin/cron

If there anything in /var/adm/cron/log?

[Indira Aramandla]

Hi,

Cron not running.
Firstly, check "mail" for the user in question. Any errors from cron will go their.

ps -ef | grep cron

If it returns no process, cron is not running.

/sbin/init.d/cron start

To check if its set to autorun, check /etc/rc.config.d/cron

make sure the run variable is set to 1

IA

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

Hello

OK, go to /sbin/init.d/
Check for cron:
/sbin/init.d/#ll | grep cron
The out put like this:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1275 Nov 14 2000 cron

Just type: #cron

Regard,
Hoang Chi Cong