CRON Problem

[bgill]

Running Solaris8.
I have cron jobs set to run every hour from 6am till 7pm, as oracle user, which transfers archive log files to my standby system. This job ran ok till 7:00pm yesterday evening.
Since 6am this morning it fails.

Here is the line in the crontab:

00 6-19 * * * /usr/lbin/copy_arch.sh -s /archive/G -t /archive/G -r stdby -z 1>>/var/log/copy_archG.log 2>&1

Here is cron log entry:

> CMD: /usr/lbin/copy_arch.sh -s /archive/G -t /archive/G -r stdby -z 1>>/var/log/copy_archG.log 2>&1
> oracle 16959 c Mon Jun 13 12:30:00 2005
! bad user (oracle) Mon Jun 13 12:30:00 2005
> CMD: /admin/sys_q_stat > /dev/null 2>&1
> root 16960 c Mon Jun 13 12:30:00 2005
< oracle 16959 c Mon Jun 13 12:30:00 2005 rc=1

Cron jobs work fine for root user. The oracle user is in cron.allow. Why is oracle "bad user" I have the same problem with another users cron jobs as well.
I have searched here and saw a thread about secure ssh causing cron problems on solaris8. I have recreated crontab from system console and still get the same problem. I have also stopped and re-started the cron process, but no luck.
Any help much appreciated.

 

[bgill]

It's ok now. found the answer in this thread

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=267938