CRON job won't start running

kluttrell65

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

Pavel

Hi,

do not you have full /var filesystem?

anything related in /var/adm/cron/log?

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

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