cron not working

adnanm · 07-24-2007, 01:53 PM

Hi,

My cron suddenly stopped to work, I am running centos 4.5 with latest cPanel build.

I have the following for testing:

Code:

*/1 * * * * /bin/date >>/date.log

But it is not working, when I check in /date.log and /var/log/cron it is empty,

I have tried to restart crond, and to update cPanel but nothing seems to work.

any ideas?

twantrd · 07-24-2007, 03:01 PM

Did you make sure crond is running?

-twantrd

adnanm · 07-24-2007, 03:06 PM

yea,

when

Code:

ps aux | grep crond

I can see it running.

chrism01 · 07-24-2007, 07:50 PM

Well, if cron has a problem it usually emails root (or the crontab's owner).
Try mail or mailx from the cmd line as root/other user.