question about cron

Rilindo Foster webmaster at monzell.com
Tue Dec 26 16:02:38 UTC 2006


It should also be noted that if the server is under heavy load (in my  
experience), script execution  under cron may be delayed. You will  
probably need to watch for that as well.

On Dec 26, 2006, at 10:50 AM, nilesh vaghela wrote:

> check whether lots of queue waiting for execution with cron.
>
> Like somebody had done mistake that every minute the backup job  
> will run and
> the job was around 10gb.
>
> So before ending the one cron other will start immediately and will  
> be in
> spool dir.
>
> So please check for something like this.
>
> May help ful to you.
>
> Then check the spool dir in /var.
>
> On 12/26/06, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/26/06, Bill Tangren <bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil> wrote:
>> > I have one server on which it does not seem that the cron daemon is
>> working. I
>> > use cron to do system backups and to rotate those backups (as  
>> well as
>> quite a
>> > few other things). None of them seem to be happening.
>> >
>> > My question is, what do I look for in the logs to determine  
>> whether or
>> not the
>> > cron daemon is running, and if not, why not?
>>
>> # chkconfig --list crond
>> crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
>> # service crond status
>> crond (pid 3311) is running...
>>
>> /var/log/cron may be helpful.
>>
>> John
>>
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