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Mac osx tiger server's cron service is not running

Jan 18, 2008 6:40AM PST

My Mac osx tiger server's cron service is not running. Where do I find the cron service to stop and restart it, and where is the cron log?

Much thanks,

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CRON and stuff
Jan 18, 2008 7:18AM PST

You will find the CRON logs in the Console, Applications/utilities, under Log Files/var/log

They are listed under daily.out, weekly.out, monthly.out

They only run if the machine is left on all the time as they run in the wee small hours of the morning. My daily cron runs at 3:15 which is probably the time yours will run.

What makes you think they are not running? I ask because you have not seen the logs.

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cron not running
Jan 18, 2008 7:36AM PST

Cron is not running becuase the system has scripts that run in cron that updates the files that the users use. I notice these files have not been changed and I would have to manually run the scripts to update these files. How can I restart cron service, is it a script under init.d like on SUN?