cron job not getting started

[Rajesh G. Ghone]

Hello All,
My cron jobs is not getting started in the schedule time.This is my schedule job
0 10,21 * * 1-6 /usr/sbin/sar -u 1 10>>/hp/cpuutilisation
Please note that cron ps is running.

Regards,
Rajesh G

[Manish Bharadwaj]

Check if cron is running or not
#ps -ef|grep cron

if cron is not running to start cron give
#/sbin/init.d/cron start
Check again now cron should get started

#ps -ef|grep cron

[T G Manikandan]

Everything looks normal except whether you have a "space" in between 10 and >>

It should be 10 >> and not 10>>

Revert

[T G Manikandan]

Everything looks normal except whether you have a "space" in between 10 and >>

It should be 10 >> and not 10>>

Revert

[Rajesh G. Ghone]

Hi T.G.,
I have got same thing configured on other servers without space in between 10&>> still it works.

Regards,
Rajesh G.

[Suhas_2]

Hi Rajesh,
Pls check /var/cron/log file. You may be able to debug from there.

Regards...
Suhas

[Rajesh G. Ghone]

Hi Suhas,

There is no cron directory in /var.

Regards,
Rajesh G.

[Rainer von Bongartz]

It should be

/var/adm/cron

Regards
Rainer

[Yair Goldel]

Hi
The output and error of the cron you can find in your mail

run "mail" in the user that run the cron the answer shuold be there !!!!