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Zimwy · Dec 5, 2003, 03:49 AM

Hi,
I have a 266 iMac running OS 10.2.8. Up until December 1st everything was great. I have a Cron job run a script every morning at 8 AM. The lines in my cron file are:

0 8 * * * * ./script.pl

So, until Dec 1st, everything was great.
Then, on the 2nd, and 3rd, the script did not run. This script emails me depending on its outcome, so I didn't realize that the script was not working. When it was finally realized on the 4th that it wasn't working, I ran it manually, and that was fine. But, now, even though the cron file is unchanged, it runs at 3 AM. I've checked the Time zone, date, time, everything, they're all correct. What is going on?

Thanks,
gabe

Arkham_c · Dec 5, 2003, 08:59 AM

Is cron running?

Code:
[arkham@MetalGear /etc] ps -auxww | grep cron
root    156   0.0  0.0    27612    104  ??  Ss   21Nov03   0:01.28 cron

Zimwy · Dec 5, 2003, 04:07 PM

Code:
15 [Berodachbaladan@/] % ps -auxww | grep cron
root       362   0.0  0.1    14124     92  ??  Ss   24Nov03   0:07.93 cron

It's running.

I've checked, and I have enough free space on the disk. (~20 gbs) so that's not the problem. And it IS running the script, just 5 hours off...

gabe