cron not running

[Annelise Anderson]

On Thu, 28 Dec 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
> www.digitalbluesky.net _______________________________________________

You can use the ps command to find out if cron is running:

ps aux | grep cron

It should show you "/usr/sbin/cron"

cron is started with defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf as modified by
/etc/rc.conf.

 	Annelise