cron not running

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Thu Dec 28 07:08:59 PST 2006


Check the clock.  Often older systems have dead batteries so the clock is 
so far out of whack cron jobs don't run.

         -Derek


At 08:18 AM 12/28/2006, steve wrote:
>It has been a long time since I've had to post for help, so forgive me if 
>this question is misplaced or stupid.
>I have a freebsd server running at home now for years with no problems.
>Over the  years it has been rebooted a few times either on purpose or do 
>to things like power failures.  It has always started up without 
>problems.  On the 12/27 I shut down the server so I could physically clean 
>the server (was getting kinda gross with dust balls and stuff).  It 
>started up no problems but rather curiously the cron service does not seem 
>to be processing any jobs now.
>I am not sure where to go about figuring out what the problem is or how to 
>fix it.  I would greatly appreciate any help or guidance from people here 
>on this issue.
>Steve
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