Cron not running

[Nils Kassube]

Phil wrote:
> I cannot get any cron jobs to run. My first guess was that crond has
> not been started but that could be wrong because "sudo start crond"
> results in an "unknown job" error.

Well, the job name should be "cron" and not "crond". Anyway, first I 
would check if cron is running with the command

ps ax|grep -v grep|grep cron

There should be two jobs running: cron and anacron. And if cron is 
running, it could be a bad line in your crontab. There are two different 
types of crontab, i.e. the system wide crontab "/etc/crontab" and 
individual crontabs for the users. The difference is that a line in the 
system wide crontab has an entry for the user to run the job. But the 
individual user crontabs don't have that entry and would take the user 
entry as the command to run.


Nils