#!/bin/sh # Start/stop the cron daemon. # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: cron # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog $time # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog $time # Should-Start: $network $named slapd autofs ypbind nscd nslcd winbind # Should-Stop: $network $named slapd autofs ypbind nscd nslcd winbind # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: # Short-Description: Regular background program processing daemon # Description: cron is a standard UNIX program that runs user-specified # programs at periodic scheduled times. vixie cron adds a # number of features to the basic UNIX cron, including better # security and more powerful configuration options. ### END INIT INFO PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin DESC="cron daemon" NAME=cron DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cron PIDFILE=/var/run/crond.pid SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/"$NAME" test -f $DAEMON || exit 0 . /lib/lsb/init-functions [ -r /etc/default/cron ] && . /etc/default/cron # Read the system's locale and set cron's locale. This is only used for # setting the charset of mails generated by cron. To provide locale # information to tasks running under cron, see /etc/pam.d/cron. # # We read /etc/environment, but warn about locale information in # there because it should be in /etc/default/locale. parse_environment () { for ENV_FILE in /etc/environment /etc/default/locale; do [ -r "$ENV_FILE" ] || continue [ -s "$ENV_FILE" ] || continue for var in LANG LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_CTYPE; do value=`egrep "^${var}=" "$ENV_FILE" | tail -n1 | cut -d= -f2` [ -n "$value" ] && eval export $var=$value if [ -n "$value" ] && [ "$ENV_FILE" = /etc/environment ]; then log_warning_msg "/etc/environment has been deprecated for locale information; use /etc/default/locale for $var=$value instead" fi done done # Get the timezone set. if [ -z "$TZ" -a -e /etc/timezone ]; then TZ=`cat /etc/timezone` fi } # Parse the system's environment if [ "$READ_ENV" = "yes" ] ; then parse_environment fi case "$1" in start) log_daemon_msg "Starting periodic command scheduler" "cron" start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $EXTRA_OPTS log_end_msg $? ;; stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping periodic command scheduler" "cron" killproc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON RETVAL=$? [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && [ -e "$PIDFILE" ] && rm -f $PIDFILE log_end_msg $RETVAL ;; restart) log_daemon_msg "Restarting periodic command scheduler" "cron" $0 stop $0 start ;; reload|force-reload) log_daemon_msg "Reloading configuration files for periodic command scheduler" "cron" # cron reloads automatically log_end_msg 0 ;; status) status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $NAME && exit 0 || exit $? ;; *) log_action_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/cron {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload}" exit 2 ;; esac exit 0