My cron jobs has stopped running

HappymanUK

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I had a cron job set to run daily that was a backup script that FTP'd backup files to a remote server.

Since one of the cpanel updates this has stopped running - Although I can see if listed in the cron file.

Any ideas what I could do to fix this issue ?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
Daniel
 

cPanelTristan

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Check if crond is still running:

Code:
ps aux | grep crond
If it isn't, then restart it:

Code:
/etc/init.d/crond restart
If that is not the issue, then what does /var/log/cron show for the cronjob in question?

Code:
grep cronname /var/log/cron
Replace cronname with the name of the cronjob file.
 

HappymanUK

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ps aux | grep crond shows:

root 27065 0.0 0.0 4628 676 pts/0 D+ 19:02 0:00 grep crond

The last entry in /var/log/cron shows as Sept 16th 2011.

Something is definitely not quite right....

Any ideas ?

Thanks
Daniel
 

cPanelTristan

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Yes, restart crond, because it isn't running. Your return was the grep on crond itself not crond running. Again, it is:

Code:
/etc/init.d/crond restart
 

HappymanUK

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Thanks.

That resulted in the following (which makes sense):

Stopping crond: [FAILED]
Starting crond: [ OK ]

I'll see how it goes.

Thanks again,

Daniel