[Sunhelp] Cron weirdness

[Dale Ghent]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, fluteplayer wrote:

| Ok, this one has me stumped. 
| 
| The cron daemon has two strange symptoms.
| 
| 1) The rc2.d startup script will only start the daemon during bootup. I can
| not manually run this script and have cron run. I have to resort to
| /usr/sbin/cron. 
| 
| 2) The crontab entries are not firing. I can watch the cron log and watch
| the cron daemon execute the entries one by one. But, no real process is ever
| spawned. Each cron execution gets an rc=1. This condition applies to all
| users including root. 
| 
| E4000 box running Solaris 2.6 in and NIS environment. Strange and very
| strange. 

Make sure that you have 2.6 patches 105621 and 109163 (to fix cron
starting) installed. From looking at the notes of these two patches, they
might fix your problems.

/dale