Cron not working

[kenny2004]

I am using redhat FC2, i realised that the crond is always not very stable. Everytime i have to reboot the box in order to get it working after a while.

When I entered the following,

crontab schedule.cron

I did a crontab -l, it shows the scheduled job, * * * * * echo "hello".

But i waited for minutes, the 'hello' message never came.

Is this a problem in the FC2 release?

I tried 'kill -9 crond' and restart the crond process. But it didn't work too.
Any suggestions

[kyku]

Hmm... Perhaps the message is redirected to system log or hits a different virtual terminal. What if you tried to:

* * * * * touch "/tmp/hello"

Will the file be created?

[kenny2004]

I think i found the problem why no display on the screen......interesting the messages are sent to my root mailbox.

Don't know why this is the case. But the cron still works i guess.

[unlv]

Hi all,

i have set up a cron job like this
* * * * * bash -c ulimit -f unlimited


It fails becasue

#200 - System error 12 - Lack of resources (memory, locks, handles, etc). (OS last error:12).

[kyku]

Hi all,

i have set up a cron job like this
* * * * * bash -c ulimit -f unlimited


It fails becasue

#200 - System error 12 - Lack of resources (memory, locks, handles, etc). (OS last error:12).

What is the reason to have this line executed every minute by bash? If I guess correctly your intentions, then you are trying to bypass some system restrictions. But even if you are allowed to, then you cron entry seems to be a no-op. It starts a bash, executes ulimit for this bash 'session' and quits the that bash. Only programs that had been spawned from that bash would have been affected by your limits.