cron.daily script is failing

[Robert Canary]

If the cron job is setup correctly (hmmm???) it 
should send you an emailof any failures.  If the 
script isn't sending failures then you have one or 
two options.

1)  Alter the task to inlcude opening a file for 
writing, and have it write to the file as the 
script runs.  Logging each step as it gose through 
it (eg Connecting to remote xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

2)  Run the cron job with redirected output
here's an entry I use to query the modembanks. 
this is all on the same line (incase the email 
dose a line wrap)

0-59/5 * * * * root /etc/cron.hourly/modemcheck 
2>>/var/log/err/modemcheck.err

--
robert


jg wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a script being called by cron.daily to be
> executed every 24 hrs. at midnite.
> (copies some web server logs over to a remote log
> server via scp).
> 
> I have this exact same cron job & script running fine
> on 2 of 4 systems, everything is identical with the 4
> systems, word for word, line for line...
> 
> It works on 2 systems that are remote, they can copy
> the logs over to the log server just fine.
> 
> On the 2 systems that are on the log servers local
> LAN, the cronjob fails.
> Well at least, it doesn't copy the logs over.
> It's not appearing to be a communication issue, these
> machines can see each other just fine, they scp with
> no problem.
> 
> If I execute the script manually from command line, it
> works fine, it SCP's the files over to the log server
> just like it should.
> But for some reason or other, cron.daily will not fire
> this off.
> Or if it is firing it off,  it is dying somewhere.
> 
> I don't know where else to look to see if there are
> any particular errors.
> 
> 
> My question is where can I look to see specifically
> the output/errors/results from the cron.daily job(s).
> And, any idea why this would fail, all the appropiate
> cards seem to be in place.
> 
> Here is a breakdown:
> 
> *System A - Works ok, logs get there - (Remote Srvr). 
> *System B - Works ok, logs get there - (Remote Srvr).
> *System C - Works manually, but not via cron.daily
> *System D - Works manually, but not via cron.daily
> 
> *Log Server - gets the logs from Systems A & B every
> nite at midnite, doesn't get anything from C & D.
> 
> Any idea ???????
> 
> 
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