Talk about a brain fart, I checked if crond was running and it wasnt, so I started it and I am golden now. Now its just a matter of figuring out why it shut off. SMP boxes have never given me a problem in the past, so this is interesting. I dont have any root password expire times or any of that..the investigation continues...thanks all for your help...i guess i need some sleep! Darryl On 4/25/05, Steven Jones <Steven.Jones@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have found it not unknown for crond to just die, especially on SMP > machines. I used to have 2 machines identical to each other except one > had only 1 single CPU, when I added another cu, drond started dying just > like the smp machine. > > Also another reason cron can die is if you have a password expiry on > root, I have only seen this on Sun boxes mind you I have never set a > expiry on Linux. > > Regards > > Steven > > -----Original Message----- > From: Darryl W. DeLao Jr. [mailto:ddelao@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, 26 April 2005 1:08 p.m. > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Cron Job Failure > > For some reason, one of my servers has decided to stop running all of > its scheduled cron jobs. The cron jobs are still listed and > configured correctly based on the commands to run, times, etc but none > of them run. They have been running fine now for well over 6 months. > The only thing that I can think of as to why they stopped running was > some RedHat updates that I applied last week. All log files on the > server indiciate that the last time the cron jobs ran was on 4/16, > which is the day I applied the updates. The problem however gets > better, because I have 4 other servers which are exactly like this one > and they got the updates as well and their cron jobs run just fine. > Just curious if anyone else is having this problem and what have you > done about it? Also, how can I get my cron jobs working again? Do I > have to re-create each one? Some were there by system default. > > Thanks for any help in advance, > Darryl > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
