Restarting Cron

[Pat Matthews]

How can I stop Cron and Restart it without rebooting the server?

Pat Matthews
pmatthews@systemationusa.com

[AriesFR]

Hi,

you type
/sbin/init.d/cron stop
then
/sbin/init.d/cron start

That should do it...

Jean-Charles

[harry d brown jr]

Easy,

kill it, and then from root type in cron.


live free or die
harry

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Pat,

I'd use:

/sbin/init.d/cron stop
/sbin/init.d/cron start

Rgds, Robin.

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,

/sbin/init.d/cron stop (or a plain kill)

/sbin/init.d/cron start


good luck,
Thierry.

[Pat Matthews]

Thanks a ton

[harry d brown jr]

/sbin/init.d/cron does a kill, with nothing special about it.

live free or die
harry

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Pat:

A general comment. In cases like this, where you are going to use the script (anyway) to restart the daemon, I prefer to use the script to kill. Then, in any case where there might be additional processing beyond a mere kill of a process, I'm covered and I don't have to "think". With command-line recall-and-edit this is so fast and easy.

Regards!

...JRF...