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How to restart cron on Sun OS 5.10

How to restart cron on Sun OS 5.10 without restarting the server? The system administrator used

/etc/cron restart

and killed the FIFO file. I believe now it is running two cron daemons as the log show each scheduled script being run twice. ps -f grep cron shows

root 6147 1 0 Dec 29 ? 0:01 /usr/sbin/cron
root 7377 1 0 Dec 29 ? 0:01 /etc/cron restart

The log file example

> CMD: /somedir/subdir/script1>/dev/null 2>&1
> root 24236 c Tue Jan 5 04:00:00 2010
> CMD: /somedir/subdir/script2>/dev/null 2>&1
> root 24237 c Tue Jan 5 04:00:00 2010
> CMD: /somedir/subdir/script3>/dev/null 2>&1
> root 24240 c Tue Jan 5 04:00:00 2010
> CMD: /somedir/subdir/script1>/dev/null 2>&1
> root 24258 c Tue Jan 5 04:00:00 2010
> CMD: /somedir/subdir/script2>/dev/null 2>&1
> root 24259 c Tue Jan 5 04:00:00 2010
> CMD: /somedir/subdir/script3>/dev/null 2>&1
> root 24266 c Tue Jan 5 04:00:01 2010

The uname -a returns

SunOS ServerName 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

ls -l /etc/init.d/cron returns

/etc/init.d/cron: No such file or directory

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larsrohr

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amit_g

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What is /system/cron? There is no cron in /system.

amit_g

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Nevermind, should have read svsc man before posting :)

larsrohr

Yup, the 'svc:/system/cron:default' is the full FMRI (fault management resource identifier).
The following abbreviated version should also work:
svcadm restart cron

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Brian Utterback

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Amol

svcadm restart -t system/cron:default

amit_g

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Worked like a charm. For the duplicate cron, the processes were killed using kill. Thanks everyone.