Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:54:50 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: steve <steve@digitalbluesky.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cron not running Message-ID: <20070101215234.F27277@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061228141816.5883.qmail@harmony.digitalbluesky.net> References: <20061228141816.5883.qmail@harmony.digitalbluesky.net>
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, steve wrote: > It has been a long time since I've had to post for help, so forgive me if > this question is misplaced or stupid. > I have a freebsd server running at home now for years with no problems. Over > the years it has been rebooted a few times either on purpose or do to things > like power failures. It has always started up without problems. On the > 12/27 I shut down the server so I could physically clean the server (was > getting kinda gross with dust balls and stuff). It started up no problems > but rather curiously the cron service does not seem to be processing any jobs > now. > I am not sure where to go about figuring out what the problem is or how to > fix it. I would greatly appreciate any help or guidance from people here on > this issue. > Steve > www.digitalbluesky.net _______________________________________________ You can use the ps command to find out if cron is running: ps aux | grep cron It should show you "/usr/sbin/cron" cron is started with defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf as modified by /etc/rc.conf. Annelise
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