cron – what’s going on?

Source: http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/crontab_not_running.html

Check the last time cron was run:

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 # ls -lut /etc/init.d/cron

Is cron still running:

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ps -el | grep cron

Has cron looked at its files lately?:

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# ls -lut /etc/crontab