cronjob not workin for non-root user

[Jenny John]

my cronjob for non-root user was working fine before the restart of the server but after the restart cronjob for non-root user is not working.

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

You got this message when you check via the user account you mentioned:
# crontab -l
crontab: you are not authorized to use cron. Sorry.

You check the /var/adm/cron/cron.allow file,it is probably empty. The you have to put the user name inside the file to allow cronjob.

[Jenny John]

crontab -l is working
and my user is added in cron.allow file

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

did you check the cron logs ? under /var/adm/cron

[Jenny John]

yes but i didnt find any error over there

my script is running manually & root users cron is running fine

is there any other file to check the cron log for specified user other than root

[Dennis Handly]

How do you know it isn't working? What do you expect to happen?
Expect mail? Expect an action in a disk file?

>is there any other file to check the cron log

Not really. Have you checked /var/adm/syslog/mail.log?
Have you done a "crontab -e" to make sure cron(1m) knows there is a change?

I assume there is a file in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ for that user?

[Jenny John]

actually my script is collecting system stats.. which runs at every 5 mins and the ouput is redirected to a file which is not being updated... but when i run the script manually its working fine.

i have tried crontab -e also..
is there anything else i have to check??

[Dennis Handly]

>I didn't find any error over there

Do you see your script even being invoked by cron(1m)?

You should see:
> CMD: your crontab line
> username 2910 c Sun Jul 18 13:23:00 PDT 2010
< username 2910 c Sun Jul 18 13:23:16 PDT 2010

The last two are start and stop times.
If you see an entry, you need to debug your script.

[Jenny John]

i dont see my script even being invoked by cron(1m).

[Dennis Handly]

>I don't see my script even being invoked by cron(1m).

Restart cron?
/sbin/init.d/cron stop
/sbin/init.d/cron start

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

Can you see the cron daemon is running ?
# ps -ef |grep cron

[Rita C Workman]

Did you make sure that your script has everything it needs within it to run via cron?

Remember, when you're running from cron it needs all the environment made available.

When you're running from command line, you are logged in and have your environment running for you.

Just a thought,
Rita

[INH]

Hello,
1) firstly you need to check whether your job is invoked by cron or not
# /var/adm/cron/log
....
> CMD: your crontab line
> username 2910 c time of job in cron

& check /var/adm/cron/cron.allow file

2) Give a look on permissions and environment of the file(s)

3)Restart cron & check
/sbin/init.d/cron stop
/sbin/init.d/cron start
# ps -ef |grep cron

5)
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my cronjob for non-root user was working fine before the restart of the server but after the restart cronjob for non-root user is not working.
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if nothing changed prior to reboot then probably environment variable or you may cross check syntax in crontab -l & crontab -e ( edit)issue. As you said you are able to run it mannually

HTH

Regards,
INH