cron has stopped running (Debian)
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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/etc/init.d/cron restart
restarts cron.
But does not explain why it stopped in the first place.
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.