| crontab failure [message #206208] |
Wed, 29 November 2006 03:37  |
prashanth_gs
Messages: 67
Registered: November 2005
Location: chennai
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Hi all,
I scheduled my weekly backup in crontab but it doesnot get executed.
More over, while checking I was unable to find any details while issuing command
in crontab -l
I scheduled the job by issuing
crontab -e /u04/gdbprd/scripts/dailyexp10g.sh and saved it properly.
What would be the reason and how to resolve this?
Please explain.
Prashanth
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| Re: crontab failure [message #206283 is a reply to message #206208] |
Wed, 29 November 2006 07:43  |
rtjk
Messages: 33
Registered: February 2005
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Hello prasanth,
crontab should be scheduled as follows.
crontab -e
The crontab file contains six fields:
Field No Field Values Description
1 Minute 0-59 Minute of the hour
2 Hour 0-23 Hour of the day
3 Day 1-31 Day of the month
4 Month 1-12 Month of the year
5 Weekday 0-6 Day of the week(0=Sunday)
6 Command NA The command to execute
00 04 * * * /utils/cronkickoff/startjobonactivehost.sh "ksh /loc/kai/sri.sh"
for example the above cron will execute on 4 clock morning everyday
* indicated that it has to execute all the time.
Hope it helps.
Jayakumar
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| Re: crontab failure [message #206336 is a reply to message #206283] |
Wed, 29 November 2006 11:32 |
prashanth_gs
Messages: 67
Registered: November 2005
Location: chennai
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No, Still its not working.
I gave all the privileges (777) to the script.
What would be the other reasons for that not get implemented?
Please advice.
Prashanth.
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| Re: crontab failure [message #206341 is a reply to message #206336] |
Wed, 29 November 2006 12:13 |
joy_division
Messages: 4963
Registered: February 2005
Location: East Coast USA
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Why would changing the permissions on a shell script have any effect on whether a job runs if it's not in the crontab?
Like Mahesh said, if you don't have anything returned from crontab -l, then you didn't create a cronjob. crontab -e shellscript.sh is not how you create a cronjob. Look at Jaya's response.
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| Re: crontab failure [message #206978 is a reply to message #206336] |
Sat, 02 December 2006 22:47 |
Mohammad Taj
Messages: 2412
Registered: September 2006
Location: Dubai, UAE
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hi
if you schudule ur job through crontab and ur job is not run then check mail sended by crontab what is exacly problem.
login super user.
and check
etc/profile file ( location of ur mail) and check ur mail.
and when you type
$crontab -l
what message you got...
1. no crontab for "username"
2. any specific job sehudule entry.
post here.
hope this helps
Taj
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