cron has stopped running (Debian)

Hello linoders …

Does anyone have an explanation for this?

My cron stopped running -- completely, for all users including root -- ten days ago.

I haven't done anything to it, or added new jobs. Cron has just stopped. No evident problems before it stopped.

Would be grateful for any advice or pointers.

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Is your crond process running? What distro?

Partly answering myself …

/etc/init.d/cron restart

restarts cron.

But does not explain why it stopped in the first place.

Similar thing happened to me a while ago. Cron would just die for no reason and the only way I'd know it was dead was by no stats being submitted to RML.

This happened a few times. I moved to fcron and haven't had a problem since. This obviously doesn't fix crond but a seemingly more robust cron daemon did the trick.

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