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

["Robert S" <robert.spam.me.senseless@gmail.com>]

?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 [🔎] 87k4gtv3wb.fsf@alamut.ozu.edu.tr">news:[🔎] 87k4gtv3wb.fsf@alamut.ozu.edu.tr...

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.

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:15:49 +1100, Robert S writes:
> 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?