CRON job won't start running

kluttrell65
kluttrell65
in LPAR2RRD
I have a server running AIX v7. I have a fresh install of the LPAR2RRD OS agent. I can manually run the job and force the upload with success. The cron job will not begin as it should:
xxxx:/home/lpar2rrd>crontab -l
* * * * * /usr/bin/perl /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl xxx > /var/tmp/lpar2rrd-agent.out 2>&1
This line is the same as another server that is working fine. The only difference is the failing server has a cron.allow, to which I've added the lpar2rrd:
xxxx / >cat /var/adm/cron/cron.allow
root
dphitx10
lpar2rrd
Any insight would be appreciated.

Kent Luttrell

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  • Pavel
    Pavel
    Hi,

    do not you have full /var filesystem?
    anything related in /var/adm/cron/log?

  • kluttrell65
    kluttrell65
    Sorry for the long delay in responding. We have found that if you do a somewhat automated update of the crontab for lpar2rrd user, the cronjob will not start. Once you save the crontab it then works. Its as if AIX doesn't know there is a new crontab until the save. We just added that step into our installation process.
  • Anile78
    Anile78

    Apologies for the delay. We discovered that automating the crontab update for the lpar2rrd user doesn't initiate the cronjob on AIX.

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