Hi,
I recently discovered that cron is not running on my system. The
cron package I have is version 3.0pl1-36. In the man page it
says:
cron is started automatically from /etc/init.d on entering
multi-user runlevels.
However, when I try to find the cron process with ps, I get nothing:
$ ps -ax | grep cron
1540 p5 R 0:00 grep cron
I also found that a job I submitted to the at queue wasn't
processed and stays there. Probably what is missing is a number
of symbolic links of the type /etc/rc?.d/[SK]??cron pointing to
/etc/init.d/cron. Has anyone seen this problem before? what
should be the S?? and K?? prefixes of the links to the cron
script?
Thanks in advance,
Eric Meijer
E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
