12-05-2005
Thanks for the replies,
we have added a check and restart cron from a linux box and yes this will enable us to be emailed when it gets restarted then we can resenarch the problem.
It has gone down about 10 or 15 times in the last 4 years, the cron seems to take certain holidays off when nobody is watching.
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