'cron daemon' cannot be started automatically after it have been dead.

[Sakolnop Sompongsakul]

I had faced the problem that 'cron daemon' could not be started automatically by itself when it died. So I checked the '/etc/inittab' file, there is no line about 'cron' so that I decided to put it in the '/etc/inittab' file. It works; but sometimes it gives me some errors that 'cron have been already started. This program will be started again in 5 minutes', which means that this error message will display every 5 minutes; and some progroms which have been already scheduled cannot be started by 'cron daemon'.

What should I do with 'cron daemon' to let it restart automatically after it dies without any errors?

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

The following two ways exist for daemons start up: to put appropriate script into /sbin/rcN.d and to add a string into /etc/inittab.
AFAIK, crontab is startud up in /sbin/rc2.d
If you prefer to use inittab instead of this,
edit the file /etc/rc.config.d/cron and set CRON=0
In this case cron daemon will not be started up when the computers goes up.

HTH

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Instead of starting cron in inittab write a script which checks for cron running and starts it if it is not.

Put that in inittab and then no messages


Steve Steel