Is my Cron daemon running? 1

[ethertec]

Please help a linux newbie! How can I tell if my crond daemon is currently running? I'm trying to run a cron job but it never seems to execute.

Thanks,
Ethertec

 

[ianf]

ps -ef | grep cron Ian

"IF" is not a word it's a way of life

 

[marsd]

You could run top as well to see what is going on.
Check your logs to see (/var/log/messages) to see what is
going on with your job if anything.

bye.

 

[IPconfig]

try

/etc/rc.d/init.d/cron status

and see what that tells you

 

[ethertec]

IPconfig,

When I do a "crond status" (since "cron status" is not a recognized command) from /etc/rc.d/init.d, I get the following error:

crond: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 390: Resource temporarily unavailable.

I tried using top and checking the /var/log/messages per the suggestion above, but they don't tell me much. If by chance cron is not running, how hard is it to start it back up? Please keep in mind that I'm running Red Hat Linux 5.0.

Thanks!
ethertec

 

[stanhubble]

IF cron is not running (ps -ef | grep cron)

then run /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start

OR

run /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart

if you are really in doubt
then run /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond stop
and /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start

Have fun

 

[johnhoke]

>>crond: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be
>>390: Resource temporarily unavailable

Hmm... ok, it looks like the PID file exists,

Do a

ps -ef|grep crond

then do

cat /var/run/crond.pid

see if they are the same #'s

If not, kill -9 <PIDs of running crond >
then, rm /var/run/crond.pid


That should get everything stopped so you can /etc/init.d/crond start


-John