CRON DAEMON

[harpal]

Does anyone know how to stop and start the cron daemon and does this require a reboot.

thank in advance

 

[LeDam]

stopsrc -s doesn't work???

 

[KenCunningham]

Is it not possible to kill the cron by obtaining it's PID with ps -ef | grep cron, then restart /usr/sbin/cron? I don't think a reboot should be necessary. HTH.

 

[PSD]

Harpul,

If you kill -9 the cron process it should respawn itself as in the inittab the cron daemon is set to respawn. Check the time stamp on the process after the kill to ensure the it has respawned. You of course do not need to reboot the system. If it does not respawn automatically run :

telinit q

This will re-read the inittab and kick off the process.

Cheers

PSD
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX V4.3 Systems Support
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX V4 HACMP

 

[harpal]

thanks guy's