From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 06:13:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5C216A40F for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 06:13:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.67.20.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8EA13C457 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 06:13:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 738CA4CC3D; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by smtp2.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4174CC3C; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nobody@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l025soRu027289; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:54:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:54:50 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: steve In-Reply-To: <20061228141816.5883.qmail@harmony.digitalbluesky.net> Message-ID: <20070101215234.F27277@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <20061228141816.5883.qmail@harmony.digitalbluesky.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: cron not running X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:13:19 -0000 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