Cronlog exceeded its maximum size...

[calin98]

Hi, All. I hope you can help me.
We are using 4 Novell servers. One of them (which is assigned for Backup, print server etc) is giving us head aches.
A message will pop up on screen: “Cronlog exceeded its maximum size. Logfile restarted”. At this point the users can not see the server any more and I have to reboot it. For the last two days is happening like 5 times a day or more!!! Not good for our company.
Since I am not a System Administrator…I did “vrepair” and “dsrepair”. It would not fix the problem.
Any suggestions? Could be something else? In my understanding the cronlog it is not such a big thing to lock up the server. Is it?
Thanks

 

[TheLad]

VRepair and DSRepair should be used sparingly. It is unlikely that a VRepair will fix this issue and impossible for a DSRepair to fix this issue.

Try deleting SYS:ETC\CRONLOG and see if it resolves the issue. Also ensure that you are not running out of diskspace on SYS

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[marvhuffaker]

I doubt it has anything to do with Cronlog.... But Thelad mentions disk space, and I also suspect you are running out.

Utilities like vrepair and dsrepair are designed to fix specific issues. They are not a fix-everything utility, and you should know why you are running them. You shouldn't run them just to 'hope' it helps.



Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[DaveBrown]

Hi,
It may be you need to increase the size of your conlog
I use the following command and don't get the problem

load conlog maximum=100

Hope this helps

Regards

Dave

 

[TheLad]

Dave, CRONLOG and CONLOG are two seaprate things. CRONLOG relates to CRON which is an automated task scheduler. CONLOG is for logging the console actions.

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[DaveBrown]

TheLad - Oops my mistake -Would it be useful to see if all the cron jobs are actually needed?

Dave