Cronjob issue

raj47 · 05-10-2012, 05:31 AM

Hi There,

I am very pleased by this forum so someone would answer my question

I have couple of cron jobs running in my servers

My server currently in PDT but when i check the /var/log/cron

its running at different time

thanks
Raj

centos123 · 05-10-2012, 06:30 AM

give output of crontab -e

lithos · 05-10-2012, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by centos123

give output of crontab -e

That probably should not be an issue,
but the current Timezone set on server.
And when changed it would help if Crond is restarted too, to pick-up the time/date.

raj47 · 05-10-2012, 11:17 PM

Quote:

That probably should not be an issue,
but the current Timezone set on server.
And when changed it would help if Crond is restarted too, to pick-up the time/date

lithos,

I have restarted the cron multiple times but the time remaining the same. Its weird my cron never pickups the PDT

thanks
Puspharaj

raj47 · 05-14-2012, 06:09 AM

Some one please answer to this thread

I think cron running on its own UTC timezone

pan64 · 05-14-2012, 06:22 AM

how did you restart the cron daemon?

raj47 · 05-14-2012, 11:09 PM

/etc/init.d/crond restart

deepak_message · 05-15-2012, 12:04 AM

Is there ntp configured on your server, if yes/no, stop ntp service. it could be reasone one...

raj47 · 05-15-2012, 11:10 PM

Deepak,

Ohh!!! i cant stop the ntp on my server apps need that

thanks
Raj