Cron Issues

[Mike McGrath]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H.
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:27 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: Cron Issues 
> 
> Hi there --
> 
> There isn't an error message per se, it just appears that the 
> cron job was not executed. The user running the job is root. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike McGrath
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:18 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: Cron Issues 
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kaplan, Andrew H.
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:38 AM
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Cron Issues
> > 
> > I noticed that on several nights one of the scheduled cron 
> jobs on one 
> > of our Fedora Core 4 systems did not run. I was able to run the job 
> > manually. This appears to have just happened, and it appears to be 
> > intermittent.
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen this type of behavior? Thanks.
> > 
> 
> This is most commonly from environment variables and paths 
> not being referenced or set up correctly, do you have a copy 
> of the specific error you're getting?  Who's running the job? 
> We need more information.
> 
> 	-Mike
> 

There has to be some sort of message or reason you think a job isn't
running?  Is there anything in /var/log/messages (search for cron) often
times when a cron job fails an email gets sent to root, does that
message say anything?

	-Mike