Crontab

Your job is not running every 50 minutes it's running every hour when the clock hits 50 minutes after the hour. It's hard to tell what's going on without seeing the script "myclearcache files". What happens when you run the job manually from the command line? If it fails, that may give you clue as to what happened. Also check the mail of the user that runs the cron job with the mail command. The system usually will mail the user with an error messages of a cron job that failed. Another thing to check is the cron log. In solaris it's located in the file /var/cron/log -- see if there's anything in there.

Is the perm on your script avec execute permission? Redirect the output in your crontab

50 * * * * /myclearcache files > /tmp/result.dat 2>&1

try to run it when login. You could use sh -x myclearcache files to see what's happening.

When it's running from the cron, is your PATH setup correctly...

It's hard to tell without knowing what the script is doing....

Good luck.

You should kill the cron process and restart cron.

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