CRON

[Manikantan IB]

Hi

We are facing a different problem with the cron daemon ...

The problem is that for scheduled user jobs it forks itself but not 'exec'-ing ,eventually the system is filled up with many cron daemons running

FYI
1)The cron logs doesnt show any exceptions.
2) PHCO_17552 B.10.00.00.AA Year 2000 cumulative cron/at/crontab patch

Thanks in Advance

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi,

For your information, PHCO_17552 has been superseeded by PHCO_19985 and didn't have dependencies specified.
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/hp-ux_patches/s700_800/10.X/PHCO_19985

This patch is dependent on the following CRITICAL libc cumulative patch (PHCO_22924)
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/hp-ux_patches/s700_800/10.X/PHCO_22924

Best regards,

Dan

[Manikantan IB]

Hi Dan

Even without the patches that u have mentioned the cron was working fine upto Jan 2001.

In other machines in our network they have the old patch only and not the superseeded one and on those machines cron is working fine.

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi,

Are you sure your users' jobs ever terminate?

Dan

[Manikantan IB]

Hi Dan

Even after installing the New patch it's not working.

Help needed immediately.