chkservd and crond

[rapidot]

Crond keeps dying on me. Is there a way to make chkservd restart it?

[ncconquer]

there a way to make chkservd restart it?
use: /sbin/service chkservd restart

[chirpy]

Crond keeps dying on me. Is there a way to make chkservd restart it?

Probably. You'd need to look how chkservd works with the configuration files in /etc/chkservd.d/ and /usr/sbin/chkservd

What would, of course, be better would be to fix the issue that is causing crond to fail. Have you checked the /var/log/cron and /var/log/messages files for when crons dies to see if it gives out errors.

[cpanelben]

Support for monitoring crond will be added to chkservd in the near future.

[chirpy]

Excellent

[jondolar]

When will support for monitoring cron be added?

I just found out that crond was not running on one of my servers. I was able to manually restart it. However, it was 2 days before I noticed it. This happened on the same server about a month ago. I guess it is time to figure out why it is failing.

Any suggestions as to how to figure out what is causing crond to stop running?

[xServers.ro]

Here's how you can monitor cron daemon using Chkservd of Cpanel:

- go in /etc/chkserv.d and add a file named crond with this content:
service[crond]=x,x,x,/etc/init.d/crond restart,crond,root

- edit chkservd.conf and add the line crond:1

- restart chkserv service with /scripts/restartsrv_chkservd

That's it.