How to restart Cron Process?

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For some reason my cron jobs aren't running. I have it doing a backup every night. I tried restarting the syslogd process, but that didn't work. I also killed the cron process but when I try to restart it it wont start. I get an error.

# /usr/sbin/cron &
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# ! cannot start cron; FIFO exists Thu Mar 7 09:53:49 2002
! ******* CRON ABORTED ******** Thu Mar 7 09:53:49 2002

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 

[cfsalmeida]

Just remove the cron FIFO in /etc/cron.d/FIFO and restart cron.

Regards,

Carlos Almeida,