Originally Posted by aman_dba

hi friends

well m facing a different sort of issue in my cron.
i hav set job like this

30 09 * * 1 /bin/backup14M
01 14 * * 1 /bin/backup14N
20 18 * * 1 /bin/backup14E

that is for every Monday at three different times.
but, first job executes well, later ones do not. I checked my scrip result at 14:05 hrs, and it was not executed, i change the job to 14:08 and it executed well at the specified time, then checked at 18:21 hrs for the output, again it didnt execute, and i changed the time to few more minutes and it executed at that time. All i noticed is, that if i change the time to few minutes, it executes, but it do not execute for big intervals.
Can anybody tell the problem and the respective solution

Mentionable:- I hav the checked the basic cron forums, so find my issue lil different from the mentioned.. Using centOS 5.3 system.

thanks in advance

Originally Posted by i_tears

Hi

Did you check crontab logs?

Originally Posted by aman_dba

hey

yeah i did...its showing that its taking that script at that very interval, but the script is not executing..

Originally Posted by i_tears

Why you split your crontab into multiple lines? try this

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30 9,14 * * 1 /bin/backup14M

30 9,14 * * 1 /bin/backup14M

Originally Posted by aman_dba

i hav to run different scripts on different timings, thats why i hav split in different lines.

Originally Posted by i_tears

hmm..

Then you need to see the output of your script while its execute. like.

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01 14 * * 1 /bin/backup14N | mail -s "Your second script" i_tears@techbabu.com

01 14 * * 1 /bin/backup14N | mail -s "Your second script" i_tears@techbabu.com

Originally Posted by aman_dba

well, the problem is, my sendmail is also not working. I hav checked the logs of cron, n it is simply showing that cron is taking that script, but i dunno why, i am not getting the script output.If i run script directly on the terminal, or if i set the cronjob to next few minutes, it executes very comfortably. This is wat surprising me alot...

Originally Posted by i_tears

hmm

Which OS you are using? and how many minutes you extended?. Try to use this.

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1 14 * * 1 /bin/backup14N

1 14 * * 1 /bin/backup14N

Remove 0 from minutes. I think problem with 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09. You don't need to put 0.

Originally Posted by aman_dba

M using centOS, n i believe if i use few minutes like 5 to 10 mins, the cron job is running.
By any chance, do u think that cron goes to sleep mode, after some interval of time??
and 0 is not any issue, coz i also have set jobs like
30 9 * * *
and
20 18 * * *
and they are also not executing at their intervals...