For some reason, cron seems to have stopped running users' tasks this morning. I'm not sure if it will run system tasks (cron.daily, cron.weekly, etc.). BTW, I'm running Suse 10.1 . It worked fine during the night (around 00:30), running a backup of the / partition. The task is in root's crontab. However, now it won't run any task in any user crontab, including root. The times for several tasks have come and gone and none of them have been executed. I checked and the cron daemon is running: ps -ax | grep cron 4557 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron Below is a copy of a crontab which should have run this morning. The times have been changed several times this morning trying to figure out what is happening: # dar backup of / partition 30 0 * * 7 /root/full_system_dar_backup.sh # dar backup of /home partition 10 13 * * 7 /root/full_home_dar_backup.sh 30 0 * * 1,2,3,4,5,7 /root/diff_system_dar_backup.sh 55 7 * * 1,2,3,4,5,7 /root/diff_home_dar_backup.sh This also happening with the cron jobs of regular users. Any help is greatly appreciated. Rick