kcrontab

by M. Bialas and D. Klemm

2. About cron Services


2.2. Requirements?

In order to use cron services and kcrontab you need to have a cron daemon installed on your system. To find out if cron is active you could do the following:

Open a terminal window (like kvt) and type the following:

ps -ax | grep cron

The output of this should look like this:

2573 p0 S 0:00 cron
2893 p3 S 0:00 grep cron

In this case a cron daemon is runnin with process ID 2573.
Note: The process ID is assigned dynamically. It will most certainly be a different one on your system and can change (for example after a reboot).
If there is no cron process on your system you may not have cron installed. Please see the documentation provided by your OS Vendor. Further information may be found by typing:

man cron

This will call the man-pages for cron. Read the information carefully.


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