SUMMARY: Strange cron behavoir

Hi Adam,

The below problem you mentioned were you able to solve it as I am having a
similar problem

Thanks
Emmanuel

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