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.
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.
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