cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 3759

Question

I had a cron job setup that I cleared using cron -r last night.

This morning I tried to enable it again and get this error each time:

cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 3759: Resource temporarily unavailable

I have tried rebooting and it didn't help. OS = Debian.

Please paste the output of these here: ls -alrth /var/run/crond.pid ls -alrth /var/ — Istvan, Oct 17 '09 at 23:52

score 26 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 18 '09 at 01:27

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I was making a dumb error. I should be using crontab command instead of cron.

answered Oct 18 '09 at 01:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 07 '22 at 08:45

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cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 5021: Resource temporarily unavailable

after removing pid from cron.pid file it started working, could you please check once if that helps

edited Dec 07 '22 at 08:45

Gerald Schneider

answered Dec 07 '22 at 08:26

ds100

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