cron stopped working

Sunil Sunder Raj unixtools at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 11 01:14:29 PDT 2003


Hi,
Please change the path in /etc/crontab with the path in /root/.cshrc.
You do not need to change it, just add the extra paths in /root/.cshrc to 
/etc/crontab.

Restart the cron daemon.

Regards
SSR








>From: Matthew Bettinger <mbettinger at championelevators.com>
>Reply-To: mbettinger at championelevators.com
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: cron stopped working
>Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:11:16 -0500
>
>Hello,
>
>I have the following crontab entry for root:
>via crontab -e
>
>SHELL=/bin/sh
>PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>HOME=/var/log
>#========================================================
># Crontab entries to execute flexbackup to dump /depot /general /usr /var
># on specified days.  Level 0 (full) on Wed @ midnight and Incrementals
># every other day at midnight -M.Bettinger 9.17.02
>#========================================================
>55 23 * * 3 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 0
>55 23 * * 4 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 1
>55 23 * * 5 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 2
>55 23 * * 6 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 3
>56 23 * * 0 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 4
>55 23 * * 1 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 5
>55 23 * * 2 root /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 6
>
>This is sopposed to run  a backup script at night however it appears to not 
>be
>working, or is it?  In /var/log/cron shows :
>
>Apr  8 13:08:00 tester /usr/sbin/cron[75516]: (root) CMD (root 
>/usr/local/bin/
>flexbackup -fs all -level 6)
>
>If i cut and paste the exact command in sh shell it works.
>
>System info...
>
>tester# uname -a
>FreeBSD tester.championelevators.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Thu 
>Dec
>5 21:58:26 CST 2002
>root at tester.championelevators.com:/general/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>tester# uptime
>10:15AM  up 121 days,  1:06, 1 user, load averages: 0.35, 0.09, 0.03
>
>ps displays that cron is running.
>
>root     115  0.0  0.4  1028  448  ??  Is    9Dec02   1:48.07 
>/usr/sbin/cron
>
>regards,
>
>Matt Bettinger
>
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