Cannot get cron to work on Amazon EC2?

Question

I\'ve spent two days trying to understand why I can not get cron to work on my Ubuntu EC2 instance. I\'ve read the documentation. Can anyone help? All I want is to get a wor

Answer 1

Your cron daemon is not running. When you're running ps aux | grep crond the result is showing that only the grep command is running. Be aware of this whenever you run ps aux | grep blah.

Check the status of the cron service by running this command.

Try:

sudo service crond status

Additional information here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-start-restart-cron/.