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[apple]

dear hpux gurus,
would like to seek yr advice. i tried to run the cron jobs, but hit this error? what would be the corrective action? hope to hear from you. thank you


cron may not be running - call your system administrator
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[T G Manikandan]

check /var/adm/messages or cron log file.
ps -ef|grep cron to check if crond is running.

[sreekanthtm]

Make Sure that cron is running your Server

# ps -ef | grep cron

Which command you are trying through cron? Are you using any script?

Rgds
Sreekanth

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

Check cron is running or not.

# ps -ef |grep -i cron
root 1346 1 0 Feb 18 ? 0:07 /usr/sbin/cron

If not start cron by this command.

#/sbin/init.d/cron start

look at the cron log file /var/adm/cron/log

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi Apple,

# ps -ef |grep -i cron

# /sbin/init.d/cron status
(the above comand will show "cron running"

If not running please start the cron as below

# /sbin/init.d/cron start

Thanks,
Johnson

[apple]

dear Sir,
ok, im at home. will check tomorrow at office whether the cron services is runing or not. from the log i check this evening, it says cron started something like that.

[apple]

dear sir,
i tried to stop and start the cron. but when i issue ps -ef |grep -i cron, the cron is not started.
when i check the cron log, the file attribute was 8 jan, 2008 which was last year. no log for the past one year.

hope to hear from you. thank you

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

please chk if cron is enabled at

vi /etc/rc.config.d/cron
CRON=1

[sreekanthtm]

What's the error you are getting while starting cron?

Use this command and post the output

# /sbin/init.d/cron start


Rgds
Sreekanth

[apple]

thank you