I managed to start the crond and let it stay on running after logoff by doing "/etc/init.d/crond start &" as root. The problem I had seems to be related to the fact that we cannot login as root directly. We have to login as regular user first using secured id, then su to root. It happens twice already. If I su to root and then do "service crond start" and logoff, the crond process is lost. It took me a while to realize that it was me who actually terminated the crond! Conway -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Burger Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:02 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: crond stops after logging off On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Chu, Conway wrote: > I login as a regular user and then su to root. Use "service crond > start" to start the crond deamon then logoff. But login again and use > "service crond status", it displays that the pid exists but the > process is no longer available. Looks like crond terminates after > logging off. Question is, besides starting crond at boot time, how to > start crond and let it run and able to logoff"? Crond isn't dependant on your being logged in. You should probably do "service crond status" after you've started it, to see if it's really still running. Then, you'd do well to check /var/log/cron and /var/log/messages for any errors or other messages that might give you an idea of what's going on. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
