[19919] in Athena Bugs
Re: Is cron not working on Solaris Athena?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas E Cavin)
Tue Oct 23 17:46:37 2001
From: Thomas E Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:46:34 -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 All,
I think I found my problem. Operator error. Sorry to bother you all.
The problem was a command that gave no output, and also didn't have
the right arguments to do anything. So cron ran the job, but it
didn't do anything, and didn't tell me why. (sigh.)
Thanks,
--Tom
Thomas E Cavin writes:
>
> 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
> >
>
> --
> Tom Cavin Phone: (617) 258 - 7806
> WCCF Computer Operations Manager Email: tec@ai.mit.edu
>
