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Old 03-31-2011
crond not work after writing to cron log?
Yesterday I was testing out some cron commands and when i was check the /var/log/cron with vi editor I accidentally did :wq instead. Since then the log has not updated and I'm assuming no cronjob is running because looking at the log there's activities everyday

there's some default stuff that runs everyday like run-parts /etc/cron.hourly

since I :wq nothing's happened and the last log was

Mar 30 11:51:01 host crond[216921]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)

I did

[root@host log]# service crond status
crond (pid 195631) is running...
[root@host log]# service crond restart
Stopping crond: [ OK ]
Starting crond: [ OK ]
[root@host log]# vi cron
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Old 03-31-2011
Check the permissions of the file, they may have changed. You may need to delete it and restart your system logger.
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Old 03-31-2011
hey corona... what is the command to restart the system logger?
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Old 03-31-2011
Depends on your system.
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Old 03-31-2011
actually is this possible... its showing my last run time in August


-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1904 Aug 20 2010 /etc/init.d/crond
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Old 04-01-2011
That's the modification time, not the run time, unless you forced ls to print atimes somehow. Often atimes aren't used these days since the feature's seldom needed and adds a lot of pointless disk writes.
 
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