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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9598.0. "cron problem?" by TKTV20::KOBAYASHI_E () Wed Apr 23 1997 07:38

OSF/1 3.2C
AlphaServer8200

 A customer sent me a problem report. He tried to file rename by cron at AM0:00
everyday. But sometime cron executed at 23:58.(not every time.)

 He said "cron execute not a setting time".

# crontab -r
0 0 * * * /usr/stage/run/ini/bin/move_sh > /dev/null
#
# cat move_sh
LOG=messages
cd  /var/adm
test -f abort_mesg.e && mv abort_mesg.e abort_mesg.f
test -f abort_mesg.d && mv abort_mesg.d abort_mesg.e
test -f abort_mesg.c && mv abort_mesg.c abort_mesg.d
test -f abort_mesg.b && mv abort_mesg.b abort_mesg.c
test -f abort_mesg.a && mv abort_mesg.a abort_mesg.b
test -f abort_mesg.9 && mv abort_mesg.9 abort_mesg.a
test -f abort_mesg.8 && mv abort_mesg.8 abort_mesg.9
test -f abort_mesg.7 && mv abort_mesg.7 abort_mesg.8
test -f abort_mesg.6 && mv abort_mesg.6 abort_mesg.7
test -f abort_mesg.5 && mv abort_mesg.5 abort_mesg.6
test -f abort_mesg.4 && mv abort_mesg.4 abort_mesg.5
test -f abort_mesg.3 && mv abort_mesg.3 abort_mesg.4
test -f abort_mesg.2 && mv abort_mesg.2 abort_mesg.3
test -f abort_mesg.1 && mv abort_mesg.1 abort_mesg.2
test -f abort_mesg.0 && mv abort_mesg.0 abort_mesg.1
mv  abort_mesg        abort_mesg.0
cp  /dev/null   abort_mesg
chmod           644 abort_mesg
#
# ls -l 
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 10 23:58 abort_mesg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 09 23:58 abort_mesg.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 08 23:59 abort_mesg.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 08 00:00 abort_mesg.2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 07 00:00 abort_mesg.3
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 06 00:00 abort_mesg.4
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 04 23:59 abort_mesg.5
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 04 00:00 abort_mesg.6
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 03 00:00 abort_mesg.7
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 02 00:00 abort_mesg.8
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Apr 01 00:00 abort_mesg.9
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Mar 31 00:00 abort_mesg.a
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Mar 30 00:00 abort_mesg.b
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Mar 29 00:00 abort_mesg.c
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Mar 28 00:00 abort_mesg.d
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Mar 27 00:00 abort_mesg.e
-rw-r--r--   1 root     Stage          0 Mar 26 00:00 abort_mesg.f

Can you tell me what's wrong here ?

Thanks in advice,

Eiji Kobayashi/CSC/MCS/DECJAPAN

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