cron problem

[Achille Costabile]

Hi all,

I am having problems with my cron jobs. For about a day now, a few of my cron jobs have been failing. Within the cron log file, besides some cron jobs within the script, it has been stating rc=1. Ever since this has appeared some of the crob files have been failing.

I know that it has to do with comething about return code. I have stopped and retsrated cron, and it still seems to appear. I was wondering i anyone else had any suffestionsm as to how to fix this problem.

Thanks
Achille

[Jaimin Parikh]

Hi,

Have you changed system time/time zone in near past?

Check the system run level state?Any changes to cron files recently?

If it is possible for you to restart the server I would suggest try doing that once.

-Jaimin Parikh

[Karthik_2]

Are the same cron jobs that are failing everytime or jobs are failing at random?.
Also make sure that not more than one cron job is running.
You can checkup /var/spool/cron/crontabs to see if any one has edited the crontab file recently.
Even if u change the date backwards you cant predict cron behaviour.

Karthik

[Achille Costabile]

Thanks for the repsonses.

The cron files have not been changed in a long time. The rc=1 message is literally happening to every cron job now. Any other help would be greatly appreciated.

[James A. Donovan]

Check out this thread, and check for undefined environment variables in your cron job scripts.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x1e6037f45ef7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html