Dear osf managers,
I'm still quite new to DU and have a problem. We have a DEC
Alphastation 3000/300X, with DEC OSF/1 V2.1.
Apparently for no reason (I say: apparently) now and then the
crontab demon has died, so my scheduled backup for the night didn't
run. I do not know how to check for the crontab being there, so I use
the following newbie trick:
% crontab -l > a.a
% crontab a.a
The system responds with:
cron may not be running - call your system administrator
The only way I know to restart the crontab is rebooting the entire
system. Surely, there must be a more elegant way.
Can you help me with the following:
- Are there obvious reasons for crontab to die?
- How can I check whether crontab is running or not?
- How can I restart crontab without rebooting the system?
Thanks in advance,
Rob
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Rob van Strien
Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, Leiden, NL
rob_at_rulxho.leidenuniv.nl
Received on Mon Apr 15 1996 - 10:23:16 NZST