strange cron issue

[nyck]

Hello,

i have setup the following crontab entry:-

0 * * * 0,6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
0 8-17 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1200 3

so this should be outputing data into /var/adm/sa starting at 08:00 finishing at 17:00 and this will run Monday to Friday. Now i'm getting data appearing but the times it starts at is 09:00 to 18:40!!!

the date on the server is perfectly ok, can someone point out if i'm doing something wrong here?

 

[zaxxon]

And what happens if you just put a little shell script in your crontab that echos `date` every minute from some point in time to another into a log file? Are the times shown in the log are correct?

laters
zaxxon

 

[khalidaaa]

It depends how you output the binary data produced by the sa1 command!?!

see these links

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/R...an/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds5/sa1.htm

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/R...S/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds5/sa2.htm#HDRA27594D5

check the -o flag in sar command

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/R.../a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds5/sar.htm#HDRA26891631

I hope this clarifies the case.

regards,
Khalid

 

[nyck]

hello,

I made a slight mistake!

I put the entry for the sa stuff in roots crontab file instead of the crontab file for sys. I have removed it from root and all seems fine now.

cheers

nick

 

[nyck]

me again,

it should be adm & not sys ( I work with Solaris)

all setup now and will wait to see what i get!

 

[khalidaaa]

Good, we are all waiting

Regards,
Khalid