you proberly do have any cron job schedule that the reason cron deamon is not running.
crond starts automatically, when there is a cron job in crontab.
To list jobs in crontab issue this command
to schedule job to run at 3:10am issue command
and then add a line, something like:
cron deamon lives in /usr/sbin/cron but this could be different on your system. crond will start automatically once a job has been schedule.
To find where your cron deamon lives issus command
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 02-27-2010 at 01:17 PM..
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Hi can any one please help me
with this
there are some cron jobs running on one of production servers i noticed the jobs are not running for long time, when i checked the logs i founf this message,
information form the server
# chage -l root
Minimum: 0
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