test if cron is running?

[Roman Joost <romanjoost@gmx.de>]

Is there a possibility to test, if cron is running? I tried something with roots
crontab:
>gecko:/home/roman# crontab -l
>MAILTO=root@localhost
>0,18,54,57 13 * * * test -e /usr/sbin/anacron

I thought, that the cron will e-mail me the failure of the line, but nothing
happens. I looked at the syslog, and can't find an error. Cron is definitly
started: 

>gecko:/home/roman# ps ax | grep cron
>  494 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
> 1233 pts/2    S      0:00 grep cron

Is anacron started by cron? Because anacron is working... 

I recently have the problem, that my cron won't start anything which i entering
in the crontab. A Linux without cron is really bad :((


Thanks, for any ideas!

Roman
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