Re: OT: Cron not working
$ps xea | grep crond Will show you if the cron process is running or not -rje VB Hello to everyone... VB Red Hat 6.2 VB How do I find out what is wrong with cron? From January 15th until today VB cron is not working... My (oracle's) crontab file HAS not changed... VB So I went to the /var/log/cron file. Last activity was on January 15th. VB Since then no activity has been recorderd. VB If I issue crontab my crontab file and afterwards crontab -l, there VB are lines VB oracle (02/04-11:37:14-7686) REPLACE (oracle) VB oracle (02/04-11:37:17-7690) LIST (oracle) VB My job was scheduled on 11:40, however job wasn't executed. VB How do I see whether cron is running or not? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Robert Eskridge INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: OT: Cron not working
Oh, really? I'm not beginner... Anyway, thanks... Solution was weird... When I deleted /var/log/cron file, then touched /var/log/cron and then started cron - everything went back to normal. Why the f(#$^%* it wasn't working, I don't understabd... /var/log/cron was small (~30k), df -k /var/log gave me about 1 Gig of free space... Yet, cron was not working... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 13:23 $ps xea | grep crond Will show you if the cron process is running or not -rje VB Hello to everyone... VB Red Hat 6.2 VB How do I find out what is wrong with cron? From January 15th until today VB cron is not working... My (oracle's) crontab file HAS not changed... VB So I went to the /var/log/cron file. Last activity was on January 15th. VB Since then no activity has been recorderd. VB If I issue crontab my crontab file and afterwards crontab -l, there VB are lines VB oracle (02/04-11:37:14-7686) REPLACE (oracle) VB oracle (02/04-11:37:17-7690) LIST (oracle) VB My job was scheduled on 11:40, however job wasn't executed. VB How do I see whether cron is running or not? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Robert Eskridge INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Vladimir Barac INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
RE: OT: Cron not working
Vladimir, I have seen 2 replies to questions today that were less than tactful, yours and one regarding awk ksh If you post a message asking for help and someone tries to help then it is bad manners to be critical of that help. I am replying to this because I also replied to your post with some basic info on the use of cron, the same as Robert did. If we both read your mail and thought you had minimal knowledge of cron then perhaps your post was at fault , not those who offer help. Glad to hear you have sorted the problem anyway John -Original Message- Sent: 04 February 2003 13:19 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh, really? I'm not beginner... Anyway, thanks... Solution was weird... When I deleted /var/log/cron file, then touched /var/log/cron and then started cron - everything went back to normal. Why the f(#$^%* it wasn't working, I don't understabd... /var/log/cron was small (~30k), df -k /var/log gave me about 1 Gig of free space... Yet, cron was not working... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 13:23 $ps xea | grep crond Will show you if the cron process is running or not -rje VB Hello to everyone... VB Red Hat 6.2 VB How do I find out what is wrong with cron? From January 15th until today VB cron is not working... My (oracle's) crontab file HAS not changed... -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
RE: OT: Cron not working
-Original Message- Why the f(#$^%* it wasn't working, You obviously ARE a beginner as it is clear you have not become familiar with capriciousness of sunspots! SUNSPOTS! It's SUNSPOTS! Now you know; so don't ask why anymore. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Antwort: RE: OT: Cron not working
Vladimir: fuser /var/log/cron and lsof might be a starting point to find out what went wrong. It will give you a list of programs that currently have this inode open. If one of these programs has opened the logfile in blocking mode then other programs will simply sit there and wait or time out depending on the implementation ( ioctl,termio ) when they try to open the logfile. Under some circumstances it is possible that the kernel (who keeps the list of open inodes and their condition) does not get notified when the program owning this inode died, rarly happens as kernels are quite robust. Therefor I am sure a reboot would have solved the problem as well allthought not recomended. So you would have to inspect the relevant kernel tables (adb on hp-ux, maybe the /proc directory under red hat offers help here). The reason why it worked when you deleted and touched the file was because it then has received a new inode as ls -i would show and therefore the related lock is pointing to another destination. After the fopen only the inode is relevant not the name any more. of course if cron is not working the first thing you should check is if the daemon is running :-))) HTH cheers alex John.Hallas@voda fone.co.uk An: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet von: Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thema: RE: OT: Cron not working 04.02.2003 15:39 Bitte antworten an ORACLE-L Vladimir, I have seen 2 replies to questions today that were less than tactful, yours and one regarding awk ksh If you post a message asking for help and someone tries to help then it is bad manners to be critical of that help. I am replying to this because I also replied to your post with some basic info on the use of cron, the same as Robert did. If we both read your mail and thought you had minimal knowledge of cron then perhaps your post was at fault , not those who offer help. Glad to hear you have sorted the problem anyway John -Original Message- Sent: 04 February 2003 13:19 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh, really? I'm not beginner... Anyway, thanks... Solution was weird... When I deleted /var/log/cron file, then touched /var/log/cron and then started cron - everything went back to normal. Why the f(#$^%* it wasn't working, I don't understabd... /var/log/cron was small (~30k), df -k /var/log gave me about 1 Gig of free space... Yet, cron was not working... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 13:23 $ps xea | grep crond Will show you if the cron process is running or not -rje VB Hello to everyone... VB Red Hat 6.2 VB How do I find out what is wrong with cron? From January 15th until today VB cron is not working... My (oracle's) crontab file HAS not changed... -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network
RE: OT: Cron not working
Wow! another BDBAFH! And Jared says that this isn't a DBA list? -Original Message- From: Stephen Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT: Cron not working -Original Message- Why the f(#$^%* it wasn't working, You obviously ARE a beginner as it is clear you have not become familiar with capriciousness of sunspots! SUNSPOTS! It's SUNSPOTS! Now you know; so don't ask why anymore. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Gogala, Mladen INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
RE: OT: Cron not working
-Original Message- Wow! another BDBAFH! And Jared says that this isn't a DBA list? - No. No. I'm really (B)eneficial from (H)eaven! (See my halo?) The question about what to do about the situation had been answered. But the question about WHY it happened Why!? You want to know WHY!? There is only one answer to that. And it is ALWAYS that one answer. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: Antwort: RE: OT: Cron not working
Great answer! And thanks a lot! I'll keep this one burned on some cd with other great mails fropm this list... Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vladimir: fuser /var/log/cron and lsof might be a starting point to find out what went wrong. It will give you a list of programs that currently have this inode open. If one of these programs has opened the logfile in blocking mode then other programs will simply sit there and wait or time out depending on the implementation ( ioctl,termio ) when they try to open the logfile. Under some circumstances it is possible that the kernel (who keeps the list of open inodes and their condition) does not get notified when the program owning this inode died, rarly happens as kernels are quite robust. Therefor I am sure a reboot would have solved the problem as well allthought not recomended. So you would have to inspect the relevant kernel tables (adb on hp-ux, maybe the /proc directory under red hat offers help here). The reason why it worked when you deleted and touched the file was because it then has received a new inode as ls -i would show and therefore the related lock is pointing to another destination. After the fopen only the inode is relevant not the name any more. of course if cron is not working the first thing you should check is if the daemon is running :-))) HTH cheers alex John.Hallas@voda fone.co.uk An: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet von: Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thema: RE: OT: Cron not working 04.02.2003 15:39 Bitte antworten an ORACLE-L Vladimir, I have seen 2 replies to questions today that were less than tactful, yours and one regarding awk ksh If you post a message asking for help and someone tries to help then it is bad manners to be critical of that help. I am replying to this because I also replied to your post with some basic info on the use of cron, the same as Robert did. If we both read your mail and thought you had minimal knowledge of cron then perhaps your post was at fault , not those who offer help. Glad to hear you have sorted the problem anyway John -Original Message- Sent: 04 February 2003 13:19 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh, really? I'm not beginner... Anyway, thanks... Solution was weird... When I deleted /var/log/cron file, then touched /var/log/cron and then started cron - everything went back to normal. Why the f(#$^%* it wasn't working, I don't understabd... /var/log/cron was small (~30k), df -k /var/log gave me about 1 Gig of free space... Yet, cron was not working... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 13:23 $ps xea | grep crond Will show you if the cron process is running or not -rje VB Hello to everyone... VB Red Hat 6.2 VB How do I find out what is wrong with cron? From January 15th until today VB cron is not working... My (oracle's) crontab file HAS not changed... -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB
RE: OT: Cron not working
Thanks! I knew that it is something else! My first assumption was related to Gremlins... Quoting Stephen Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- Why the f(#$^%* it wasn't working, You obviously ARE a beginner as it is clear you have not become familiar with capriciousness of sunspots! SUNSPOTS! It's SUNSPOTS! Now you know; so don't ask why anymore. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
