Essential DA crons

[Guillermo]

I have accidentaly deleted some crons.
Does DA use essential crons? Because the bandwith used, which is shown on my admin panel. is still the same for 5 days in a row.

 

[l0rdphi1]

Hello,

You should have a template file on your server that has a list of the DA crontab entries:

/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/directadmin_cron

If /etc/cron.d/directadmin_cron has been changed, you should simply be able to run the below commands to reset it. Note that this is untested and I can't guarantee it will help.

cp /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/directadmin_cron /etc/cron.d/directadmin_cron

chmod 644 /etc/cron.d/directadmin_cron

/sbin/service crond restart

Hopefully that will help.

Good luck, Phil.

 

[Guillermo]

I get this when i check for the status.

# service crond status
crond dead but subsys locked

 

[nobaloney]

And have you googled that error?

Jeff

 

[Guillermo]

Yes i did Jeff, and didn't find any good explenation.

 

[nobaloney]

You're right . It's going to take some sysadmin some time to figure it out ...

Is there a lockfile for crond ? I don't have time to look right now, but read man crond if it exists on your server.

I know this isn't generally a good idea, and won't tell you what happened even if it works, but have you tried a reboot?

If you have, and it's still not working, then there's got to be a lock file somewhere.

Jeff

 

[ztar]

I get this when i check for the status.

# service crond status
crond dead but subsys locked

Have you deleted /var/lock/subsys/crond ?

 

[Webcart]

I get this when i check for the status.

# service crond status
crond dead but subsys locked

Try this:

service crond stop
service crond start
tail /var/log/messages
tail /var/log/cron

It should give you some hints.