Are you sure that the cron daemon is still running?
ps aux | grep crond

We have a box that the http daemon occasionally fills up memory, and the vm 
system seems to dump crond before anything else.

On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:38, Karl Bellve wrote:
> For some strange reason, cron has stopped running Amdump for me at
> night. I do see that cron is trying to run amdump at night.
>
> cron.log:
> Feb  5 00:45:00 itchy CROND[6620]: (amanda) CMD (/usr/sbin/amdump BIG1)
>
>
> Here is Amanda's crontab:
> 0 16 * * 1-5    /usr/sbin/amcheck -m BIG1
> 45 0 * * 2-6    /usr/sbin/amdump BIG1
>
>
> There is nothing in /tmp/amanda, as if amdump never runs.
>
> If I manually run amdump:
> su amanda -c "/usr/sbin/amdump BIG1"
>
> It works. I get logs in /tmp/amanda, and a report emailed to me.
>
> I changed group permissions for Amanda about a week ago. I noticed that
> I still had Amanda in the group "operator" from a previous install from
> a redhat rpm. Now, amanda is part of group "disk" (6).
>
> Amanda is set up like the following:
> amanda:x:33:6:Amanda user:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash
>
>
>
> Any thoughts?

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