RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4r Cron has stopped processing.

["Liam Delahunty" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Liam Delahunty Sent: 03 November 2003 13:28
>Cron has stopped processing. At least, I'm not getting the output from
>scripts anymore, and the logs haven't rotated since Nov 1st either.

>It still appears to be on:
>[root /etc]# ps -aux | grep cron
>root       554  0.0  0.0  1328    0 ?        SW   Sep24   0:00 [crond]
>root     21290  0.0  0.1  1364  512 pts/0    S    13:07   0:00 grep cron

>[root /etc]# chkconfig --list crond
>crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

>Any ideas? Can I just restart it?

(Answering my own question for the archives.)

A restart had no effect
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond status shows the pid and after the restart it had the
same one. I figured that after a restart it should have a new pid (?)

So I stopped it and started it again
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start

/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond status showed it was now in a new pid, and the
scripts started working again.

Kind regards,
Liam Delahunty
http://www.liamdelahunty.com/