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Re: Is cron not working on Solaris Athena?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas E Cavin)
Tue Oct 23 17:01:38 2001

From: Thomas E Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:01:37 -0400
To: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Thomas E Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>, Athena Bugs list <bugs@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Kolya,

Yes to the entry in /etc/shadow.  The standard Athena setting for cron
in /etc/default/cron is "CRONLOG=NO".  I'll change that and see what
happens.  Thanks for the suggestion.

	  --Tom


Nickolai Zeldovich writes:
 > >                                 The local accound doesn't use
 > > anything in AFS space, but the cron job never seems to start.
 > 
 > Does this account have an entry in the /etc/shadow file?
 > You might also want to check the /var/cron/log file.
 > 
 > -- kolya
 > 

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Tom Cavin                                Phone:  (617) 258 - 7806
WCCF Computer Operations Manager         Email:  tec@ai.mit.edu

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