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Old 11-22-2010
Question A script to check the cron
I have script whether a cron daemon is running or not. Ive kept this script in cron to check. If the cron fails how ll i come to know that the cron daemon is failed. Mystery ...

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Gopi
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Old 11-22-2010
Not at all? Write a script in with an infinite loop and a sleep instead maybe.
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Old 11-22-2010
And use a cron job to see if the script is still running? (Im only joking...)
More seriously, I have rarely seen cron daemon issues (Once in 17 years on HP-UX 8...), so if you do have some issues I would look if you are not the only one... ( What OS and version?) in other words : Isn't there a maintenance/corrective patch I am missing?
The more current issues with cron are user related...
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