Crons not running hp 10.2

[Phillip Popp]

Guys,
I get an error message from my crons when I go in to edit them. "Cron may not be running - call your system admin. Warning commands will be executed using /usr/bin/sh"

they are in fact not running and it is an issue as I use these to transfer large amount of data every 15 minutes.

What to I do to start them if that is all it is?

Thanks for all the help in advance.

Phil

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Is the 'cron' daemon running?

# ps -ef | grep cron

You should see a '/usr/sbin/cron' process in the listing.

If not, try starting it.

# /sbin/init.d/cron start

[Phillip Popp]

Thanks Patrick. cron was not running? started it, will report back in 15 or so to see if they are running. Do not know why is stopped running. should I look for something else going wrong?

Thanks,

Phil

[Phillip Popp]

Looks like that did the trick. not sure why it stopped running.

thanks

[Patrick Wallek]

Two places to look:

1) /var/adm/cron/log

2) /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

See if either has any messages about cron stopping or being killed.