After upgrading from v12.2 to v12.3 a couple of thing occurred with running
This entry is causing a problem after update.
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From /var/log/cron
I did a work around by this entry.
I don't see anything wrong with the entry. Any ideas?
The second problem is that I have few entries that I wanted to write to /usr/log/messages. I did this by using the following at the end of the line.
The jobs run to completion but nothing appears on the log file.
Does anybody have any ideas why this no longer works?
cron
.This entry is causing a problem after update.
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# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
*/11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
From /root/mbox
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From: Cron Daemon <operator@Phaedra>
To: root@Phaedra
Subject: Cron <operator@Phaedra> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/log>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <=======>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
Status: RO
cron: putenv: Invalid argument
From /var/log/cron
Code:
Feb 4 07:39:00 Phaedra /usr/sbin/cron[1051]: (*system*) PARSE (bad hour)
Feb 4 07:39:00 Phaedra /usr/sbin/cron[1051]: (*system*) PARSE (bad minute)
Feb 4 07:39:00 Phaedra /usr/sbin/cron[1051]: (*system*) PARSE (bad day-of-week)
Feb 4 07:39:00 Phaedra /usr/sbin/cron[1051]: (*system*) PARSE (bad minute)
I did a work around by this entry.
Code:
# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
The second problem is that I have few entries that I wanted to write to /usr/log/messages. I did this by using the following at the end of the line.
Code:
>> /var/log/messages
10 1 * * * root /usr/libexec/MoviesDbBackup.pl >> /var/log/messages
#
Does anybody have any ideas why this no longer works?