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What would cause "The service “crond” appears to be down." cPanel Monitoring notification email alerts after a graceful WHM system update / reboot?
I was two days late to the party and received a few hundred of these emails and the number of automated restart attempts was 250+.
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UPDATE #1: After 10 minutes I started getting the email alerts again so now I'm doing a graceful restart.
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Also, is crond service the Cron Service? I search the cpanel docs and click first couple of links and CTRL + F "crond" in page but nothing pops up.
i.imgur.com/eqX0bb7.gif
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What would cause "The service “crond” appears to be down." cPanel Monitoring notification email alerts after a graceful WHM system update / reboot?
I was two days late to the party and received a few hundred of these emails and the number of automated restart attempts was 250+.
- What do you recommend in a situation like this? A graceful restart?
- Can this be prevented (automatically) in the future?
- When service crond is down, what type of (negative) things can happen to accounts and what not?
- service crond status
- service crond restart
- service crond status
source 1
UPDATE #1: After 10 minutes I started getting the email alerts again so now I'm doing a graceful restart.
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Also, is crond service the Cron Service? I search the cpanel docs and click first couple of links and CTRL + F "crond" in page but nothing pops up.
i.imgur.com/eqX0bb7.gif
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Code:
Service Check Method:
The system’s command to check or to restart this service failed.
Service Check Raw Output:
(XID azqf6x) The “crond” service is down.
The subprocess “/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/restartsrv_crond” reported error number 3 when it ended.
Startup Log:
systemd[1]: Started Command Scheduler.
systemd[1]: Starting Command Scheduler...
crond[2532829]: crond: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 573: Resource temporarily unavailable
systemd[1]: crond.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: Unit crond.service entered failed state.
systemd[1]: crond.service failed.
Memory Information:
Used 5.1 GB
Available 10.41 GB
Installed 15.51 GB
Load Information:
1.02 0.66 0.44
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