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/USR/SBIN/CRON[20837]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20839 failed with exit status 1)

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Robert S

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Feb 20, 2011, 9:20:02 PM2/20/11
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I'm getting these in my syslog:

Feb 21 06:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[17713]: (CRON) error (grandchild
#17716 failed with exit status 1)
Feb 21 07:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[17855]: (CRON) error (grandchild
#17858 failed with exit status 1)
Feb 21 08:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[18084]: (CRON) error (grandchild
#18087 failed with exit status 1)
Feb 21 09:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[18501]: (CRON) error (grandchild
#18503 failed with exit status 1)
Feb 21 10:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[20837]: (CRON) error (grandchild
#20839 failed with exit status 1)


AFAICS I don't have any cron jobs running at 1 minute past the hour -
in /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.d/* or /etc/cron.hourly. I tried clearing
out all hourly scripts but I still get this message.

What is happening here?


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Volkan YAZICI

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Feb 21, 2011, 10:00:02 AM2/21/11
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Hi,

You might try 1) increasing the logging verbosity of cron via
uncommenting EXTRA_OPTS="-L 2" line in /etc/default/cron, and 2) taking
a look at /var/spool/cron directory contents.


Best.

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Camaleón

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Feb 21, 2011, 12:00:02 PM2/21/11
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:15:49 +1100, Robert S wrote:

> I'm getting these in my syslog:
>
> Feb 21 06:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[17713]: (CRON) error (grandchild
> #17716 failed with exit status 1)

(...)

> AFAICS I don't have any cron jobs running at 1 minute past the hour - in
> /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.d/* or /etc/cron.hourly. I tried clearing out
> all hourly scripts but I still get this message.
>
> What is happening here?

Google returned this thread:

Re: changes to cron
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/09/msg00842.html

Greetings,

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Robert S

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Feb 22, 2011, 5:50:02 AM2/22/11
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?Many thanks. I managed to locate the offending script (output sent to
"grep" and returned 1 if no match found).


"Volkan YAZICI" wrote in message news:87k4gtv...@alamut.ozu.edu.tr...

Hi,


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