RE: cron not started?
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Did you use ps or "ps -aux"?
cron doesn't show up in a regular ps. It shows when I do a "ps -aux"
On 03-Apr-97 tgakem@chem.tue.nl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I recently discovered that cron is not running on my system. The
>cron package I have is version 3.0pl1-36. In the man page it
>says:
>
> cron is started automatically from /etc/init.d on entering
> multi-user runlevels.
>
>However, when I try to find the cron process with ps, I get nothing:
>
>$ ps -ax | grep cron
> 1540 p5 R 0:00 grep cron
>
>I also found that a job I submitted to the at queue wasn't
>processed and stays there. Probably what is missing is a number
>of symbolic links of the type /etc/rc?.d/[SK]??cron pointing to
>/etc/init.d/cron. Has anyone seen this problem before? what
>should be the S?? and K?? prefixes of the links to the cron
>script?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Eric Meijer
>
> E.L. Meijer (tgakem@chem.tue.nl) | tel. office +31 40 2472189
> Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032
> Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
>
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Rick <rickya@siservices.net>
E-Mail: Rick <rickya@siservices.net>
Date: 03-Apr-97
Time: 14:36:00
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