Re: {bb} OFF TOPIC Procs report Cron down!

[Sean MacGuire <sean@www.maclawran.ca>]

> 
> 
> Hello fellow brothers.
> 
> I am in urgent need of assistence and since you guys **REALLY** know what you
> are talking about, I was hoping you could help me out here. I promise not to
> make this a habbit :-)
> 
> BB just reported "cron" down on one of my systems.
> I tried to restart the cron by issuing the following command:
> 
> MOENL142 # /ect/init.d/cron start
> MOENL142 # ! cannot start cron; FIFO exists Tue Feb  1 18:09:07 2000
> ! ******* CRON ABORTED ******** Tue Feb  1 18:09:07 2000

rm the fifo and you'll be OK.  (The FIFO is essentially a pipe with a 
name - where it lives and what it's called will depend on the system
you're running.  (Something like .fifo or something - don't remember).
-- 
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