Error in starting a cron daemon 1

[hari59]

When I start cron daemon by /usr/sbin/cron in AIX 4.3, the system says "already running cron daemon", even though no cron is running. What is the reason. Please replay.

 

[KenCunningham]

cron would usually start by default and is set to respawn if killed. Are you sure it's not already running?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[khalidaaa]

Usually you don't need to start cron manually! it is usually started by inittab!

You can check the cron process using the ps command!

ps -ef | grep cron

Regards,
Khalid

 

[hari59]

Thanks for your replay.
Tried all these. Eventhogh cron is not running, why it is saying that it is running. It is writing this process id in some file, I don't know which file.
Haridas

 

[khalidaaa]

Haridas,

What you have said is logical but i haven't seen a process id file for cron in the man file!

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/cron.htm

Regards,
Khalid

 

[khalidaaa]

By the way, have you checked the errpt report? Is there any thing useful?

 

[hari59]

To ALL,
The directory /var/locks was removed. After creating this directory cron started working.
Hari59

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks for posting the resolution, hari59. Have a star!

I want to be good, is that not enough?