cron

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

Cron is already running (on pid 105).  Check with ps.  If it is really
dead then there is a bad lock on /var/run/cron.pid.  Try removing the file
as root.

j

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Robin Garbutt wrote:

> on trying to restart cron, I get:-
> 
> cron: can't lock /var/run/cron.pid, otherpid may be 105: Resource
> temporarily unavailable
> 
> what's this mean?
> 
> tia!
> 
> Robin Garbutt
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