new crontab entries not executing

[surjeet singh_2]

I have included new job in crontab , job is scheduled to execute script once every month , but in some of the servers the job is not executed at all .Can anyone please comment on that ..............Thanks

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
crontab -l to list the crontab entries
check the logs for any failures !
restart cron daemon
Regards

[Henk Geurts]

hi Surjeet.

check the servers for
/var/adm/cron/cron.allow and var/adm/cron/cron.deny
make sure at least one of these files is present.
make sure the user is defined in the cron.allow or exluded in the cron.deny.

restart the crondaemon.
/sbin/init.d# ./cron stop;./cron start


regards.
Henk

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,

have little info on the issue, so maybe some useless comments:

- use "crontab -e" to edit the crontab, not "vi /var/spool/cron/crontabs/user" which does not refresh the current cron.
- define all your environment variables in your script, remember cron only gives you a naked environment
- check /var/adm/cron/log : did the cron job start, any return codes
- check logfiles or mail (/var/mail/username?) for messages from cron
...

regards,
Thierry.

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

You should check these:
1. switch to user you run crontab
#su - user
#crontab -l
if crontab -l display result it means this user is allow to run crontab.
2. Check cron agetn
#ps -ef|grep cron
root 1566 1 0 Jan 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 16626 14846 1 15:30:14 pts/td 0:00 grep cron
3. Check crontab log
#vi /var/adm/cron/log.
You will find reason.
HTH

[surjeet singh_2]

Thanks all of u for quick responce.

surjeet