Cron job entry not running

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,
I am facing this problem . My Cronjob entry is not running !!!
I am having Sun solaris 9 and cronjob entry is

"45 1 * * * /safedir/rdns/opt/RDNS1.1Scripts/drpl_audit_log_script.sh_orig > /dev/null 2>&1"

Now when I try to look in the output log files it creates, it is some file with entry like this -
"crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 13, 2 Nov 21 05:30 mm@0:null"

Now I am not able to open this file or view this file!!!

So please help me to find out the reasons or cause why cronjob is not running.!!??

Thanks
Himanshu

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Your crontab job is probably running just that you specified that you didn't want the output.

You are sending your output to /dev/null (> /dev/null) which is a way of stating you don't want the output saved unless there is a problem ( 2>&1). If you do want the output from the script, then don't point the output to /dev/null. Set up your entry to a log file of your own creation (such as /tmp/drpl_audit_log_script.log ). Read the man page on crontab