Sorry for the late follow-up on this. There were several suggestions, and some people pointed me to ssh, in particular enabling ssh to use login in the sshd.conf file. Unfortunately this was an intermittent problem, and deleting the crontab file and recreating it fixed it, for now. I recieved ~13 vacation messages, for those that use unix based mail readers I've attatched a procmail recipe that will prevent you from responding with tour Out Of Office emails :) #:0 Whc: vacation.lock # * !^FROM_DAEMON # * !^X-Loop: name@company.com # | formail -rD 8192 vacation.cache #:0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache ## | (formail -rA"Precedence: junk" \ # -A"X-Loop: name@vacation.com" ; \ # cat $HOME/.vacation.message; \ # echo ""; \ # echo "-- "; cat $HOME/.signature \ # ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t enjoy, Adam Mazza On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Adam Mazza wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a strange issue with cron, and was wondering if anyone has > scene anything like this: > > A user has a crontab file setup to run various nightly jobs. The time in > the file is as follows: > > 08 20 * * * /foo/somejob > 15 20 * * * /foo/somejob2 > 45 20 * * * /foo/somejob3 > > This was enabled in cron many months ago, and has been working fine. On > July 2nd we edited the file to comment out one of the jobs. All was fine, > on July 7th we edited the crontab again, uncommented the job, and returned > the crontab to it's original state. Now the job ran on the 8th, and the > 9th. After that it hasn't run.(and nothing is in cron's logfile for the > user or commands) > > Things I've checked: Cron is running and proccessing other jobs, I checked > this cron's logfile. The user isn't in cron.deny, the account is still there > and active. The machine doesn't appear to have been comprimised. There are > no hidden characters in the crontab. > > Another odd thing is today while troubleshooting this the first job listed > in the crontab file, but ran at 18:19:14 which is nowhere near the correct > time. > > This is on a Solaris 8 02/02 machine with kernel patch 108528-18. If > anyone has seen this before please let me know. > > Regards, > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers > > Adam Mazza PGP Key:http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x382775D1 Key fingerprint = 5A82 FA7F 459C E805 6C00 3211 48AC 6069 3827 75D1 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Aug 4 12:08:14 2003
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