[SunHELP] Problem with cron

[Okan CIMEN]

Have you checked  the system date?
And at your box mails, you will find the crontab error messsage if you have
mistyped anything

Cheers

Okan

----- Original Message -----
From: Sreenivasa Rao Vadalasetty <vsr at wilco-int.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:09 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] Problem with cron


> Hi,
> I have an intermittent problem with cron.  I know that you can enter
> a job in your crontab file with crontab -e just one minute before (anytime
> during the previous minute of the startup).  This is a common behaviour of
> cron and it works on all machines except for one of my box. It is very
> strange that the jobs scheduled in crontab file don't get started even I
> schedule 5 minutes before that. But the same cronjob file starts working
> after few hours. Please let me know if you think of any possibility for
this
> misbehaviour.
>
> sreenivas.
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