Problem in crontab

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

Am facing an issue while updating the crontab.Getting below error while updating the cron.

cron/tmp.XXXX5fXBR6: No space left on device
crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.XXXXEJX5gw

Is there any file where i need to alter using root user so that i can update the cron.

TIA
Ashok.

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You should check with df if your filesystems are full, /var or maybe /tmp. And maybe increase them or clean up by moving, deleting or compressing, whatever suits your needs.

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Hi

I have checked that too by df -h and the space consumed is very less on both /tmp and /var and also on other mount points as well.... is there any size limitation set for cron file such that it cant have more than xxxKB?????

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Wherever that cronjob is putting the files, that directory is full. As Zaxxon says, either clean out old files or increase the size of the directory. I would recommend doing both.

Not sure what your cronjob is doing but if you want to edit and you have sudo rights you can run sudo crontab -e and that will allow you to edit your cronjobs. Be very careful in there, if you're not familiar with how to edit it you can mess things up.

*EDIT* Just noticed your reply to Zaxxon. How many cronjobs do you have running?

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Totally 16 cronjobs for my user....

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That isn't a lot...unless there are some weird scripts running.

*EDIT*

Did some research and found this link:

No space left on device - The Danesh Project

The person who wrote the article did a df -i. Might help with your issue.

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Please post the exact version of Linux/Unix concerned.

Please check inode consumption.  You may have too many files.
df -i

If you have sar, please check basic kernel limits.
sar -v
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Am gettin below result after "df -i"

Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c1d0p1 524288 125394 398894 24% /
/dev/cciss/c1d1p1 8896512 198328 8698184 3% /mbbv
/dev/cciss/c1d0p5 2867200 22546 2844654 1% /oralog
none 385305 1 385304 1% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c1d0p2 5242880 21782 5221098 1% /var

Also PFB the version am using after "uname -r"

2 : Kernel version
4 : The major revision of the kernel
21 : The minor revision of the kernel
57 : Immediate fixing / bug fixing for critical error
ELsmp....

Linux gs-staging-01.broadbandscope.net 2.4.21-57.ELsmp i686

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Are you missing a couple of volumes there? I don't see /tmp, /home/, /usr???

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Sorry guys as i was looking at some other box.... i got the reason as /var has 100%... Thanks nixnoob for posting the link of Danesh project... it was really useful and now i have fixed the problem... Thanks everyone for sorting this issue..:b: