On AIX the file root is in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs which is linked to /var/spool/cron/crontabs. You could search for the cron files using find / -name cron* -print
You might also be aware that there *MAY* be cron jobs for different users, e.g. in the cron directory there may be jobs which are run for the user adm or another user. However, for ease of maintenance, I've usually only seen a cron file for root. If the job has to run with permissions of an ordinary user, the cron job would read something like this: 15 7 * * 1-5 su - username -c "/path/script" > /tmp/script.out 2>&1 This would run at 7:15 am, Monday to Friday, switch user to username, adopting username's .profile and environmental variables (hence the - after the su) and then run the script /path/script. Output from the cron job would go to /tmp/script.out, including errors. Anthony English -----Original Message----- From: Vema Venkata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 2:47 PM To: Schubert, John [NTWK SVCS]; Dan Muey; Jeff Westman; beginners Subject: RE: Cron jobs and perl thanx for ur suggestion m8,i went to /var/cron but when iam trying to go to log it is saying the following error "ksh: log: not a directory" -----Original Message----- From: Schubert, John [NTWK SVCS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 4:01 AM To: Vema Venkata; Dan Muey; Jeff Westman; beginners Subject: RE: Cron jobs and perl Anytime you have problems with a cron, the easiest place to look first is in the cronlog. If you have root access, look at the file /var/cron/log (this is Solaris, other *nix may have it elsewhere). If you don't have root access, delete my E-mail and I apoligize for intruding. :-) In the cron log you will see if the command executed or if it failed out. You may also note you "have mail", which may contain some useful info. (again, this is all from a Solaris point of view). Looking at your pasted entries, it looks ok, however running the .profile first may be causing problems. John -----Original Message----- From: Vema Venkata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:00 PM To: Dan Muey; Jeff Westman; beginners Subject: Cron jobs and perl Hi Dan The problem still persisits pls. help/suggest me what to do ? When iam executing the xapipgm.pl it is getting executed properly but when iam trying to execute thru crontab it is not xapipgm.pl ************************************************************** #!/bin/sh #myrun.shell xapipgm=srvtst26.pl pgrep -f $xapipgm > /dev/null # runrc=$? # echo "Return Code is: $?" if [ $? -eq 0 ] then set `pgrep -f $xapipgm ` echo "AHD XAPI Server ($xapipgm) Running with Process Id: $1" else echo "AHD XAPI Server is now Started Running on `date`.">log/init/ahdxapi.init.$1$2$3.$4$5.log set `date '+%Y %m %d %H %M' ` xapipgm=srvtst26.pl perl -w $xapipgm > log/init/ahdxapi.init.$1$2$3.$4$5.log 2>log/init/ahdxapi.init.$1$2$3.$4$5.err #perl -w $4$5>log/init/ahdxapi.init fi ************************************************************** Cron tab settings are as follows ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________ * * * * * . /home/paradigm/.profile; /proj/ahd02/CAisd/site/mods/scripts/xapipgm.pl >> /proj/ahd02/CAisd/site/mods/scripts/log/init/ahdxapi.init.log 2>&1 ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Access permsissons Details In the following path i have "/proj/ahd02/CAisd/site/mods/scripts"------------->Xapipgm.pl "/proj/ahd02/CAisd/site/mods/scripts/log/init"------------->ahdxapi.init.log and the access permission for log folder is drwxr-xr-x and init folder is drwxr-xr-x. And the log file name i.e (agdxapi.init.log) is -rwxrwxrwx rgds venkat -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
