# Stoping & starting the cron daemon

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/stoping-starting-the-cron-daemon/170890>\
**Category:** SCO\
**Created:** [April 30, 2007, 10:23am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/stoping-starting-the-cron-daemon/170890 "2007-04-30T10:23:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 10:23am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/stoping-starting-the-cron-daemon/170890/1 "2007-04-30T10:23:30Z")

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Hi

We are running SCO ver 5. Recently the cron daemon stopped running on its own. How do I find out why? How do I restart/stop it?

I typed cron but it didn't work. Will rebooting it do the trick or can I manually start and stop the cron daemon?

Please help.

Thanks & Regards.

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