cron not running

[unixkid]

I have made a edit a script out of the crontab (root) and it appears that it's still running. IS there soemthing I need to restart?

 

[scooter6]

that depends on what the script is you are running....
it could be caught as a dead process if you don't have the correct path in the script and/or in the .profile for the user executing the cron command

 

[unixkid]

root is running the script and it's root's crontab. I woudl epect since cron is always running that changes take right away but something keep running the script.

 

[grega]

How did you edit the script? To check the current state of the root crontab use crontab -l

The safest way to edit the script is to use crontab -e. If you're using this, also make sure you have the EDITOR environment variable set correctly.

Greg.

 

[unixkid]

crontab -e and I commented out a line with pound # sign.

 

[grega]

I'm puzzled! You are right in saying that if you edit the crontab script using crontab -e, comment out the appropriate lines and then save the changes, they should take effect immediately.

Greg.

 

[badco]

The same situation happened to me last year and I had to kill the process and reboot system. My cron job ran okay after the reboot. You might have a corrupted cron job or other process out there upsetting your jobs.