Cron could not unlink FIFO

UNIX Solaris
1

We are using Solaris 10 on tiny box. My issue is after server panic cron is not coming up, I've tried to manually restart cron but no luck.

# cron stop
cron could not unlink FIFO: no such file or directory
! cannot create fifo queue Thu Dec 17 11:20:17 2009
! ******* CRON ABORTED ******* Thu Dec 17 11:20:17 2009
# cron start
cron could not unlink FIFO: no such file or directory
! cannot create fifo queue Thu Dec 17 11:20:22 2009
! ******* CRON ABORTED ******* Thu Dec 17 11:20:22 2009

I tried to google this error but can not find any sol'n. Just to let you know guys there are few error in /var/adm/messages files but not related to cron.

Anyone knows from where I need to investigate my issue?

TIA
Vijay

2

a few command outputs required:-
/etc/init.d/cron stop
/etc/init.d/cron start

uname -a
who -r
id
crontab -l
ls -l /path_to_script

3

Thanks for your reply

Here are the output -

/etc/init.d/cron stop 
cron could not unlink FIFO:  no such file or directory
!  cannot create fifo queue Thu Dec 17 11:20:17 2009 
! ******* CRON ABORTED ******* Thu Dec 17 11:20:17 2009

/etc/init.d/cron start

cron could not unlink FIFO:  no such file or directory
!  cannot create fifo queue Thu Dec 17 11:20:22 2009 
! ******* CRON ABORTED ******* Thu Dec 17 11:20:22 2009
 
uname -a
SunOS oem1 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW, Sun-Blade-1500

who -r
.        run-level3 Dec 16 11:37  3   0   S

id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

crontab -l
<displays contents of crontab>

ls -l /path_to_script
/path_to_script no such file or directory
4

whats your kernel patch level? I read somewhere before that it was a bug with inetd patch co the crond dies and cannot restart
This is for Solaris 8, not 10. But see if it helps you.

5

No luck, this does not help me

6

you did not answer my question on the kernel patch level