question about cron [FIXED]

[nilesh vaghela]

I really appreciate you for the title "fixed" .

Generally people do not take care or give feed back after the problem is
solved.


On 12/26/06, Bill Tangren <bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil> wrote:
>
> inode0 wrote:
> > On 12/26/06, Bill Tangren <bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil> wrote:
> >> I have one server on which it does not seem that the cron daemon is
> >> working. I
> >> use cron to do system backups and to rotate those backups (as well as
> >> quite a
> >> few other things). None of them seem to be happening.
> >>
> >> My question is, what do I look for in the logs to determine whether or
> >> not the
> >> cron daemon is running, and if not, why not?
> >
> > # chkconfig --list crond
> > crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> > # service crond status
> > crond (pid 3311) is running...
> >
> > /var/log/cron may be helpful.
> >
> > John
> >
>
> var/log/cron was what I needed. This is the last entry in /var/log/cron:
>
> Dec 18 09:46:29 mach2 crond[3880]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
> Dec 18 09:46:29 mach2 crond[3880]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/crontab)
> Dec 18 09:46:32 mach2 anacron[3944]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2006-12-18
> Dec 18 09:46:33 mach2 anacron[3944]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
>
>
> I googled on "BAD FILE MODE" and only came up with improper permissions on
> /etc/crontab. I had somehow set it to 700, when it needed to be 644. I
> think
> that fixed the problem.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
>
> --
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>



-- 
Nilesh Vaghela
ElectroMech
Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner
74, Nalanda Complex, Satellite Rd, Ahmedabad
25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj, Baroda.
www.electromech.info