Stopping Cron

[Ed Kim]

>Help , i want to stop cron and restart coz i jus noticed crond is not 
>running properly , when i kill the process and restart twice this is the 
>error that i get or when i try and restart it , wat does it mean
>
>  [root at blahblah/root]# /usr/sbin/crond restart
>/usr/sbin/crond: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 3778: 
>Resource temporarily unavailable
>
>help!!!!!

my guess is that cron was already running, and you tried to initiate another 
crond process.
instead of directly running the crond script, try using /sbin/service crond 
restart
maybe this will work?


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