Scott,
Thanks for the reply...I restarted the cron service and also Apple finally came out with the firmware update for the 1.8ghz G5's last night and I installed that. All of sudden its working again. So one of those fixed it.
Thanks,
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Swartz [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wed 11/16/2005 9:34 AM
To: Ball, Dan
Subject: RE: Hate launchd miss crontab
I had one of five servers that I had to manually start cron the first
time. after that it has worked fine.
HTH
on 11/15/05 3:16 PM, Ball, Dan wrote:
>Sean,
>
>Thanks for all the info....very helpful!
>
>But everything looks fine....just nothing is running dealing with cron or
>daily, weekly, monthly scripts as well.
>
>I am using one of the buggy (Late 2004) G5's 1.8ghz machines so that could
>be an issue as well. Still waiting for Apple to get an SMU Firmware
>update for these things released. It could be caused by that I am guessing.
>
>I just tried running the 10.4.3 (Combo) update to see if that would fix
>anything and still no luck. I have tried just about everything.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean M. Kaiser [mailto:email@hidden]
>Sent: Tue 11/15/2005 3:32 PM
>To: Ball, Dan
>Cc: email@hidden
>Subject: Re: Hate launchd miss crontab
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>With our 10.3.9 image like everyone I used crontab to scheadule scripts
>>to run. Now with 10.4.3 I tried putting this same info back into
>>/etc/crontab and crontab -e and they still wont run.
>>
>>I checked the daily.out script and it hasn't run since May of 05, which
>>was when I last worked on our 10.4.x image waiting for a bug to be fixed
>>which came with 10.4.3.
>>
>>I pulled the info back out of the crontabs and just let the machine sit
>>and let the launchd run the default daily script and it never ran it. So
>>its not working now. Any ideas on why daily isn't running now?
>>
>>Crontab:
>># /etc/crontab
>>SHELL=/bin/sh
>>PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
>>HOME=/var/log
>>#
>>#minute hour mday month wday who command
>>#
>>#*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
>>#
>># Run daily/weekly/monthly jobs.
>>52 22 * * * root periodic daily
>>54 22 * * 6 root periodic weekly
>>56 22 1 * * root periodic monthly
>>57 22 1 * * root /sbin/startRemoveCaches
>>58 22 1 * * root /sbin/startRemoveMCXCaches
>>00 23 * * * root /sbin/startshutdown
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Dan Ball
>
>Dan,
>
>Make sure that cron is loaded into launchd. My backup server runs about
>50-60 individual processes, and I don't want to create that many launchd
>configs, so I'm using the crontab with very good results.
>
>To check if launchd knows about cron:
>sudo launchctl list
>
>You want to see com.vix.cron in the list. If it's not, then you need to
>load it:
>sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vix.cron.plist
>
>If your machine complains about the com.vix.cron.plist file (like it's not
>there or anything), this is what mine looks like (the default version):
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
><plist version="1.0">
><dict>
> <key>Label</key>
> <string>com.vix.cron</string>
> <key>ProgramArguments</key>
> <array>
> <string>/usr/sbin/cron</string>
> </array>
> <key>RunAtLoad</key>
> <true/>
> <key>WatchPaths</key>
> <array>
> <string>/etc/crontab</string>
> </array>
> <key>QueueDirectories</key>
> <array>
> <string>/var/cron/tabs</string>
> </array>
></dict>
></plist>
>
>
>To then start it:
>sudo launchctl start com.vix.cron
>
>Maybe this will help. I've never had to do this, but maybe my setup is
>different than yours.
>
>Sean Kaiser
>
>
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