My cron jobs has stopped running

[HappymanUK]

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]

Check if crond is still running:

ps aux | grep crond

If it isn't, then restart it:

/etc/init.d/crond restart

If that is not the issue, then what does /var/log/cron show for the cronjob in question?

grep cronname /var/log/cron

Replace cronname with the name of the cronjob file.

 

[HappymanUK]

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]

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

/etc/init.d/crond restart

 

[HappymanUK]

Thanks.

That resulted in the following (which makes sense):

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

I'll see how it goes.

Thanks again,

Daniel