crontab failure?

[johna2]

my system is set to do a tape backup every night.
Recently only 2 of the three usual backup messages appeared.
Now no messages appear.
The system no longer backs up!
No-one has changed anything, so could it be the drives are full?
If so, any suggestions?
Thanks

 

[MikeLacey]

what are your crontab entries john? Mike
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[edfair]

Is cron running?
Possible reboot?
Are any of the other items in crontab completing as they should? Ed Fair
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[abovebrd]

Check your systems logs for cron details. If cron tried to execute and failed it should reflect in your syslog or cron log or somewhere.

Thats where I would start.

I would also check the cron jobs for that account.
crontab -l will give you a listing of cron jobs setup for that account

Check the man page for more details



-Danny

 

[MikeLacey]

<wry smile> only person not reading this thread is the OP Mike
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