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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
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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
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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...
> $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...
>
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