I use a cron job to call offlineimap
every 2 minutes:
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/offlineimap > ~/Maildir/offlineimap.log 2>&1
I needed to kill the cron job to fix a problem. How can I then restart the cron job (without rebooting)? I found this 'solution' online:
mylogin@myhost:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service cron restart
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) and then start(8) utilities,
e.g. stop cron ; start cron. The restart(8) utility is also available.
cron stop/waiting
cron start/running, process 26958
However, using ps -ef | grep ...
, I don't see the job... What's wrong?
crontab
, comment out that job, perform your maintenance and then uncomment it... – jasonwryan May 4 '13 at 23:56