How to start the cron daemon

Question

I am using RHEL 5.4

I killed the cron daemon accidentally. I wanted to stop a cron task, didn't know how to do it, ended up killing the cron daemon itself. How do I start it again?

Answer 1

Depending on how your exact distribution is set up, /etc/init.d/cron start or variations thereupon might do the trick.

Answer 2

Since you are on RHEL you may like to use the more practical:

service crond start

If you just type

service crond

and hit Enter, you will see all the implemented available options for the previous command:

Usage: /etc/init.d/crond {start|stop|status|reload|restart|condrestart}