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Old 05-18-2012
cron daemon name
Hi All,

Please tell me which daemon is responsible for start and stop the crontab.

Please tell me the location where it resides in Linux platform.

Sindu.
# 2  
Old 05-18-2012
crond is the name of the daemon. By where does it reside, do you mean what files does it work on?
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Old 05-18-2012
It's called "crond"

Code:
# chkconfig --list crond
crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
# service crond status
crond (pid  3397) is running...

To stop it
Code:
# chkconfig crond off # don't start it after a reboot
# service crond stop  # stop it now

But not all Linux's are the same. This is for Red Hat (and CentOS, Fedora)
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