[19915] in Athena Bugs
Re: Is cron not working on Solaris Athena?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas E Cavin)
Tue Oct 23 13:57:59 2001
From: Thomas E Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:57:57 -0400
To: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Thomas E Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>, Athena Bugs list <bugs@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200110231743.NAA01828@multics.mit.edu>
Hi Kevin,
The local account has a homedir on /var/local (see passwd entry
below). The only weird thing about it is that the homedir name isn't
the same as the account name. I don't know if that is a problem or
not. The cron test that I tried for my own account was something
straight-forward like:
$ crontab -l
15 14 * * * env > /tmp/cavin.cron.env
And that would have been written at 2:10 pm (14:10) as a quick test,
with my still being logged in.
I've run into some problems previously with the granularity of cron,
but I'm not sure if that is an issue here.
Account that needs to run cronjobs:
bash-2.03$ grep amandal /etc/passwd
amandal:x:21:3:Local Amanda account for backups:/var/local/amanda:/bin/athena/bash
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
--Tom
Kev writes:
> > access permissions are correct. The local accound doesn't use
> > anything in AFS space, but the cron job never seems to start.
>
> I once had a problem with cron refusing to run cron jobs for users whose
> home directories didn't exist; you might check what's listed in /etc/passwd
> for this local account. This would also account for you not being able to
> start a cron job from your home directory, assuming you had logged out and
> the machine had detached your home directory before attempting to run the
> cron job.
> --
> Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
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Tom Cavin Phone: (617) 258 - 7806
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