I have a Solaris 8 system that runs daily cron jobs. Very infrequently a job is not run. It will run every day as it should for months. Then one day a job will simply not be run.

I have logging enabled in /etc/default/cron. The log, /var/cron/log contains entries for successful invocations of cron jobs but no record of jobs that are not run.

I am at a loss as to how to investigate this further. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Ken Taylor

Ken Taylor wrote:
> I have a Solaris 8 system that runs daily cron jobs. Very infrequently a
> job is not run. It will run every day as it should for months. Then one
> day a job will simply not be run.
>
> I have logging enabled in /etc/default/cron. The log, /var/cron/log
> contains entries for successful invocations of cron jobs but no record
> of jobs that are not run.
>
> I am at a loss as to how to investigate this further. Any ideas would be
> appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ken Taylor

Put a truss around the job, and get it to write to an output file. Check
the file after a success and a filure. That should lead you somewhere.

(And careful - post flat text only here - HTML posts only annoy
text-based news reader users ;-) )

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> Put a truss around the job, and get it to write to an output file. Check
> the file after a success and a filure. That should lead you somewhere.
>
> (And careful - post flat text only here - HTML posts only annoy
> text-based news reader users ;-) )
>
Done. We will see what happens.

(Thanks for alerting me that I was posting HTML; I was not being
intentionally dis-qwerty-ous

Ken Taylor wrote:

> (Thanks for alerting me that I was posting HTML; I was not being
> intentionally dis-qwerty-ous
>

:-)