Monitoring cron daemon

[Mohammed_Sirkhot]

Hi,

I need some help writing a script to start my cron if its not running.It falls over once a month which causes alot of problems.Plain & simple script to start /sbin/rc2.d/S70CRON start

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
from thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1024003
see Steven's answer.
and
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1051115

Please also look read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28
Your profile says, you have not found any answers point-worthy.

[spex · Accepted solution]

Hi,

# cat croncheck.sh

#!/usr/bin/sh
while true
do
if [[ $(UNIX95= ps -H -C cron -o pid= | wc -l) -lt 1 ]]
then
echo "cron restarted:\n$(date)" | mailx -m -s "cron restarted!" root
/sbin/init.d/cron start
fi
sleep 120
done
exit

Change 120 (2 minutes) to whatever interval you wish. For obvious reasons, you cannot schedule this script to run via cron. Instead, use 'nohup':

# nohup croncheck.sh > /dev/null 2&>1 &

PCS

[Mohammed_Sirkhot]

Thank you Spex..The script is working like da bomb.i have assigned it to sms me & its like a dream for me.thank you

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
so you did not like the:
MYPROC=sendmail
COUNT=$(UNIX95=1 ps -C $MYPROC -o pid= -o args= | wc -l)
if [ $COUNT -lt 1 ]
then
/sbin/init.d/$MYPROC start
fi

example in the second link given?

Change the sendmail to cron and you had your solution.

[Mohammed_Sirkhot]

No yours works just as well.Because Rex had his on i just copied it & pasted it instead of going to your link.I have tested yours as well & its excellent.Great job by you guys..i can see that i will be learning alot from yous.thank you

[Mohammed_Sirkhot]

Problem soterd out.Thanx to you guys for the excellent support