On Thursday 25 September 2003 14:30, Damian Buckley wrote:
We are using Suse Linux version 8.1 and we have a crontab set up - recently the crontab stopped running and without rebooting the machine I want to know a) what could have happened and b) how I can get the cron to start working again? I have restarted the cron deamon without any effect, restarted the networking side of the machines i.e interfaces, restarted inetd.....
Literally not running, i.e. crashing? Or just not doing what you expect of it? If the latter, it could be a syntax error in the crontab file. are there no error messages or warnings at all in /var/log/messages from cron? Look specifically for lines like usr/sbin/cron[1743]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab) to tell you when your crontab was last edited