RE: Cron not working

On certain platforms, Cron quitely fails when there is a error. Eyeball your crontab file and make a small change - insert and delete a blank line - to kick start it. Also check the daemon as others have indicated.

John Kanagaraj
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Barac [mailto:vladob_at_aster.si]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:59 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: OT: Cron not working
>
>
> 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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