CRONS service dies every couple of days

[ken_mays]

Every few days, the CRONS service dies. It always seems to happen at the same time, at 8:00 pm.

I have the service set to auto-restart and it never does. I have also tried to schedule the service to start at 8:05 PM and that doesn't seem to work either.

I'm wondering how I can find out what's killing the service.

thanks

[tomp]

Hi Ken,

Do you have an automated backup that may be holding onto the file? We can have WhatsUp watch the service and restart if necessary.


If you look in the event-viewer on the server you should see an error for Cron stopping. Can you see what other activities occurred immediately before the error.

- Tom

[ken_mays]

I don't see any error about crons stopping. There's nothing in the event viewer that is obviously standing out as the culprit.

[mkrygeri]

Hi Ken,
You might also want to check the cron.log file in the \windows\system32 directory. This file can grow quite large over time. I have seen it grow large enough to cause problems. If it is too big to open, you can simply delete it and restart the service. I would at least rename it and let it recreate another one in order to eliminate that as a possible cause here.

Mike K.

[ken_mays]

The cron.log was about 40 MB. I renamed it and we'll see what happens.

Thanks guys!

Ken

[dalet0]

Hi Ken,

Is there any errors in the Windows event logs?

Dalet0