cron not "running" after reboot???

[MAS1521]

HP-UX 11.0 jobs in crontab not executing?? when i do a [ps -ef |grep cron]-- just displays grep?? anyidea on how to get cron running?

 

[pmcmicha]

Cron is started at system boot by a shell start up script usually found in /etc/rc2.d. You should be able to manually start via root, but you would want to create or find out why you don't have cron already running at boot up.

 

[cakecop]

To start cron, login as root

# /sbin/init.d/cron start

 

[MAS1521]

thanks to everyone for your help..

 

[greenpau]

You may want to "cat /etc/rc.log | grep cron"
This will tell you if cron tried to start at boot with an rc script and if it had a problem starting.

If not, you need to setup a link to: "/sbin/init.d/cron" in "/sbin/rc.2/" or "/sbin/rc.3/" depending on your active run level at boot. Probably: "/sbin/rc3.d".

When creating the link, note the "S" and "K" numbers "S"=start, "K"=kill both with the same unique number, this number determines when it will run in the succession.