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Re: Cron not working

From: Suzy Vordos <lvordos_at_qwest.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:29:13 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00543424.20030204082913@fatcity.com>

And if cron is running, it might need kicked. Try a kill -1 or stop/restart cron.

John.Hallas_at_vodafone.co.uk wrote:
>
> Valdimir,
> Is the cron daemon running ? (ps -ef|grep for cron and you should see a line
> something like /usr/sbin/cron running as root.)
> I don't know about the output of crontab -l on Linux but what you have
> printed is nothing like I have seen on a standard flavour of unix.
> A sample crontab entry might look as follows
> 00 06 * * * $HOME/scripts/arch.sh> $HOME/logbook/arch.log 2>&1
>
> This will run a shell script at 06:00 every day
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 04 February 2003 10:59
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> Hello to everyone...
>
> Red Hat 6.2
>
> How do I find out what is wrong with cron? From January 15th until today
> cron is not working... My (oracle's) crontab file HAS not changed...
>
> So I went to the /var/log/cron file. Last activity was on January 15th.
> Since then no activity has been recorderd.
>
> If I issue "crontab <my crontab file>" and afterwards "crontab -l", there
> are lines
>
> oracle (02/04-11:37:14-7686) REPLACE (oracle)
> oracle (02/04-11:37:17-7690) LIST (oracle)
>
> My job was scheduled on 11:40, however job wasn't executed.
>
> How do I see whether cron is running or not?
>
> Thanks
>
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