cron resource temporarily unavailable

Asked Jul 27 '23 at 13:52

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I have a proxmox server with a ubuntu lxc container. cron is not working. I am working this as root:

cron -l  
  cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 21952: Resource temporarily unavailable

ls -l /var/run/crond.pid  
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jul 27 13:45 /var/run/crond.pid

ps -ef  | grep cron  
  root       21952       1  0 13:44 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron -f

kill 21952

rm /var/run/crond.pid

apt-get install --reinstall cron

service cron restart

cron -l  
  cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 21982: Resource temporarily unavailable

ls -l /var/run/crond.pid  
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jul 27 13:45 /var/run/crond.pid

asked Jul 27 '23 at 13:52

David Portabella

What do you want to accomplish with `cron -l`? – Romeo Ninov Jul 27 '23 at 13:55
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Do you want `crontab -l` instead? What is the output of `service cron status` and are there any errors in cron log (`grep CRON /var/log/syslog` by default)? – Cpt.Whale Jul 27 '23 at 14:12
ups, yes, i wanted to use crontab. problem solved. – David Portabella Jul 31 '23 at 12:52

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