Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> to prevent crond to stop (this has arrived !!!), I wanted to launch it
> via inittab and respawn option like this :
>
> cron:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/crond
>
> This doesn't work : I have errors in messages "crond is responding too
> fast : disabled for 5 mn"
man crond says:
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will
return immediately, so you don’t need to start it with ’&’.
That would make init think that cron has stopped and needs to be
restarted...
The man page goes on to say:
The -n option changes this default behavior causing it to run in
the foreground. This can be useful when starting it out of init.
Does that answer your question?
James.
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