Hi ,

I have a file created in /etc/cron.d which has an entry which execute a
command at the time interval specified .

But due to some reason it is not getting executed and the entry is still
there .

I have checked the cron daemon is running

Could you please tell the scenario in which this can happen ?

Also ,

What is the difference between entries in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab
file .


Regards
Ankit ,

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Hi ,

I have a file created in /etc/cron.d which has an entry which execute a
command at the time interval specified .

But due to some reason it is not getting executed and the entry is still
there .


I would expect it to be there unless you removed it. Failure to run
would not cause it to disappear. What does the cron entry look like?



I have checked the cron daemon is running

Could you please tell the scenario in which this can happen ?


What do you see in /var/log/cron ?
What are the perms of the script / program you are calling?
Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an interactive
shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.

Is SELinux enabled?
Can you run this script by hand with success?


What is the difference between entries in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab
file .


It is easy for a package to add/remove a file from /etc/cron.d .. a little
harder to edit /etc/crontab


Barry

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Hi ,

Thanks Barry for your inputs ..

The script is getting executed a few times when scheduled through cron

The probability of successful execution is 6/10.

Is SELinux enabled?
SElinux is disabled in my system ..

Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an interactive
shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.

Path is from the root dir.


> What is the difference between entries in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab
> file .

It is easy for a package to add/remove a file from /etc/cron.d .. a little
harder to edit /etc/crontab

How can we print the entries in /etc/cron.d through commnad line as it not
showing any entries crontab -l as the entry in /etc/cron.d is for root
user .

Thanks
Ankit











From: Barry Brimer <lists@brimer.org>

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Date: 09/29/2011 12:25 PM

Subject: Re: Query regarding cron jobs

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> Hi ,
>
> I have a file created in /etc/cron.d which has an entry which execute a
> command at the time interval specified .
>
> But due to some reason it is not getting executed and the entry is still
> there .

I would expect it to be there unless you removed it. Failure to run
would not cause it to disappear. What does the cron entry look like?

> I have checked the cron daemon is running
>
> Could you please tell the scenario in which this can happen ?

What do you see in /var/log/cron ?
What are the perms of the script / program you are calling?
Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an interactive
shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.
Is SELinux enabled?
Can you run this script by hand with success?

> What is the difference between entries in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab
> file .

It is easy for a package to add/remove a file from /etc/cron.d .. a little
harder to edit /etc/crontab

Barry

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Ankit Mahawar wrote:


I have a file created in /etc/cron.d which has an entry which execute a
command at the time interval specified .

But due to some reason it is not getting executed and the entry is still
there .


Put it in /etc/cron.[hourly|daily|weekly|monthly]


What is the difference between entries in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab
file .


crontab can be more flexible, and you can decide exactly when it runs.

mark



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Hi Mark

Thanks for inputs ...

The script is getting executed a few times when scheduled through cron

The probability of successful execution is 6/10.

Is SELinux enabled?
SElinux is disabled in my system ..

Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an interactive
shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.

Path is from the root dir.


> What is the difference between entries in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab
> file .

It is easy for a package to add/remove a file from /etc/cron.d .. a little
harder to edit /etc/crontab

How can we print the entries in /etc/cron.d through commnad line as it not
showing any entries crontab -l as the entry in /etc/cron.d is for root
user .

Thanks
Ankit








From: Ankit Mahawar/MUM/TCS

To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@redhat.com>

Date: 09/29/2011 12:46 PM

Subject: Re: Query regarding cron jobs

Sent by: Ankit Mahawar





Hi ,

Thanks Barry for your inputs ..

The script is getting executed a few times when scheduled through cron

The probability of successful execution is 6/10.

Is SELinux enabled?
SElinux is disabled in my system ..

Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an interactive
shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.

Path is from the root dir.


> What is the difference between entries in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab
> file .

It is easy for a package to add/remove a file from /etc/cron.d .. a little
harder to edit /etc/crontab

How can we print the entries in /etc/cron.d through commnad line as it not
showing any entries crontab -l as the entry in /etc/cron.d is for root
user .

Thanks
Ankit












From: Barry Brimer <lists@brimer.org>

To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@redhat.com>

Date: 09/29/2011 12:25 PM

Subject: Re: Query regarding cron jobs

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> Hi ,
>
> I have a file created in /etc/cron.d which has an entry which execute a
> command at the time interval specified .
>
> But due to some reason it is not getting executed and the entry is still
> there .

I would expect it to be there unless you removed it. Failure to run
would not cause it to disappear. What does the cron entry look like?

> I have checked the cron daemon is running
>
> Could you please tell the scenario in which this can happen ?

What do you see in /var/log/cron ?
What are the perms of the script / program you are calling?
Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an interactive
shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.
Is SELinux enabled?
Can you run this script by hand with success?

> What is the difference between entries in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab
> file .

It is easy for a package to add/remove a file from /etc/cron.d .. a little
harder to edit /etc/crontab

Barry

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On 09/29/2011 03:16 AM, Ankit Mahawar wrote:

It is easy for a package to add/remove a file from /etc/cron.d .. a little
harder to edit /etc/crontab


How can we print the entries in /etc/cron.d through commnad line as it not
showing any entries crontab -l as the entry in /etc/cron.d is for root
user .


The entries in /etc/cron.d should look very similar to what you see in
/etc/crontab -- basically, everything in /etc/cron.d/ are just
additional fragments of a greater crontab that includes /etc/crontab and
every file in /etc/cron.d/. If you just 'cat /etc/crontab
/etc/cron.d/*' you'll see all the non-user crontab entries.


I'll note that running 'crontab -l' as root *DOES NOT* show the entries
in /etc/crontab, but rather the entries in /var/spool/cron/root. The
syntax for the root crontab differs from the /etc/crontab and
/etc/cron.d/* entries. In the user crontabs, you don't need to list the
user in the sixth column, since that is implied. That user is required
in the system-wide crontab files.



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Ankit Mahawar wrote:
>
> The script is getting executed a few times when scheduled through cron
>
> The probability of successful execution is 6/10.

How long does it run? Are you sure that one isn't running so long that
cron doesn't start the next?
<snip>
> Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an interactive
> shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.
>
> Path is from the root dir.

Do you mean /, or /root/? Put an env statement in the script, and have
that print it to a file, then examine your paths.
<snip>
> How can we print the entries in /etc/cron.d through commnad line as it
> not showing any entries crontab -l as the entry in /etc/cron.d is for
> root user .

You clearly don't understand what we're asking/telling you. I've never
used cron.d; either I set up a cron job via crontab - and you can *allow*
or disallow any user from having a crontab, or it's in /etc/cron.hourly,
/etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, or /etc/cron.monthly.

mark "and the pipe sign - "|", means "or""

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Hi

Thanks

How long does it run? Are you sure that one isn't running so long that
cron doesn't start the next? ..

killed the process before scheduling the next ..

Do you mean /, or /root/? Put an env statement in the script, and have
that print it to a file, then examine your paths.

from /.



Regards
Ankit





From: m.roth@5-cent.us

To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@redhat.com>

Date: 09/29/2011 06:50 PM

Subject: Re: Query regarding cron jobs

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Ankit Mahawar wrote:
>
> The script is getting executed a few times when scheduled through cron
>
> The probability of successful execution is 6/10.

How long does it run? Are you sure that one isn't running so long that
cron doesn't start the next?
<snip>
> Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an interactive
> shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.
>
> Path is from the root dir.

Do you mean /, or /root/? Put an env statement in the script, and have
that print it to a file, then examine your paths.
<snip>
> How can we print the entries in /etc/cron.d through commnad line as it
> not showing any entries crontab -l as the entry in /etc/cron.d is for
> root user .

You clearly don't understand what we're asking/telling you. I've never
used cron.d; either I set up a cron job via crontab - and you can *allow*
or disallow any user from having a crontab, or it's in /etc/cron.hourly,
/etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, or /etc/cron.monthly.

mark "and the pipe sign - "|", means "or""

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Ankit,

First, please configure whatever you use for mail to deal with plain
text, not HTML, and tell it to use defaults, such as prefixing each
line that you are replying to with a ">". Your replies are very
unclear.

Second, man cron, crontab(1), crontab(5)

mark

Ankit Mahawar wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks
>
> How long does it run? Are you sure that one isn't running so long that
> cron doesn't start the next? ..
>
> killed the process before scheduling the next ..
>
> Do you mean /, or /root/? Put an env statement in the script, and have
> that print it to a file, then examine your paths.
>
> from /.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Ankit
>
>
>
>
>
> From: m.roth@5-cent.us
>
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list"
> <redhat-list@redhat.com>
>
> Date: 09/29/2011 06:50 PM
>
> Subject: Re: Query regarding cron jobs
>
> Sent by: redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Ankit Mahawar wrote:
>>
>> The script is getting executed a few times when scheduled through cron
>>
>> The probability of successful execution is 6/10.
>
> How long does it run? Are you sure that one isn't running so long that
> cron doesn't start the next?
> <snip>
>> Are you using complete paths in your script? Your path in an
>> interactive
>> shell and the one supplied by cron may be different.
>>
>> Path is from the root dir.
>
> Do you mean /, or /root/? Put an env statement in the script, and have
> that print it to a file, then examine your paths.
> <snip>
>> How can we print the entries in /etc/cron.d through commnad line as it
>> not showing any entries crontab -l as the entry in /etc/cron.d is for
>> root user .
>
> You clearly don't understand what we're asking/telling you. I've never
> used cron.d; either I set up a cron job via crontab - and you can *allow*
> or disallow any user from having a crontab, or it's in /etc/cron.hourly,
> /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, or /etc/cron.monthly.
>
> mark "and the pipe sign - "|", means "or""
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