Cron jobs not executing

[John Ferrara]

I have a root cron job that is supposed to reboot the server once a week (mon.@12pm). The log shows is ran:

> CMD: /home/root/shutsys.sh
> root 25379 c Mon Mar 25 12:00:00 CST 2002

The script is simple:

cd /
/sbin/shutdown -yr 0

This script has run for a few years w/o problems. Any suggestions?

John Ferrara

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Why not just do this in crontab ????

59 23 * * 5 /sbin/shutdown -r -y 0

Also, check your shutdown.allow file, in /etc.


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harry

[Mark Vollmers]

John-

the common places to start looking are permissions on the script file and the file itself. But in your case, I'd agree with Harry. Since there's only one line in the script, seems easier to use the command. Plus, you know the permissions, etc should be right.

Mark

[Darrell Allen]

Hi John,

Has the script been changed? Permissions on the script? Anything in /etc/shutdownlog, /etc/rc.log, root's mail? /sbin/shutdown permissions? What's changed since the last time it ran successfully?

Darrell

[John Ferrara]

The only thing that has changed is that I installed 12/2001 10.20 cum.patch.

The shutdown.allow file was 0 bytes. I populated it w/ my userid & root.

I modified ../crontabs/root to run the command directly instead of the small script.

I think it should work now. I also modified another cron entry that ran a file deletion script ( rm /tmp/CTT* ). I also put the command directly on the cron line. I'll let you lnow if it works.

Thanks,
John Ferrara