cant get cron to run

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I can’t get cron to worked. I was allright exactly as it is in Patch A,
but now under Patch C it just does’t run what’s in the crontab file.

crontab -l

1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /opt/bin/system_update 2> /dev/null
3,13,23,33,43,53 * * * * /opt/bin/rdate -s qnx-gw2

pidin | grep cron

241685 1 usr/sbin/cron 10o NANOSLEEP

cat /var/spool/cron/cron.allow

root

Any clues how to debug this? Does cron make any logs anywhere? (nothing
in syslog…)

Dana

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Dana Echtner \ Real-Time Systems Administrator
dana@ece.concordia.ca / ECE, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

rw-rw-rw-: The file protection of the beast

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There were some big problems with cron that have been fixed recently…
I don’t know if they made it into patch C so you may have to wait a little
while. Essentially, if it was working for you before, it was probably just
dumb luck (that’s how bad it was :wink:.

Cheers,

Kris

Dana Echtner <dana@ece.concordia.ca> wrote:

I can’t get cron to worked. I was allright exactly as it is in Patch A,
but now under Patch C it just does’t run what’s in the crontab file.

crontab -l

1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /opt/bin/system_update 2> /dev/null
3,13,23,33,43,53 * * * * /opt/bin/rdate -s qnx-gw2

pidin | grep cron

241685 1 usr/sbin/cron 10o NANOSLEEP

cat /var/spool/cron/cron.allow

root

Any clues how to debug this? Does cron make any logs anywhere? (nothing
in syslog…)

Dana

–
Dana Echtner \ Real-Time Systems Administrator
dana@ece.concordia.ca > / ECE, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

rw-rw-rw-: The file protection of the beast

–
Kris Warkentin
kewarken@qnx.com
(613)591-0836 x9368
“You’re bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything” - Donald Knuth