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How to monitor and auto restart cron service using cPanel chkservd?

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http://linuxhostingsupport.net – Sometimes the crond service fails quite often without any clue and it becomes necessary to monitor the cron service and auto-restart it. cPanel offers ‘chkservd’, a monitoring daemon that monitors the services on the server and restart them if found offline. cPanel/WHM do not provide an option to include the ‘crond’ service under the monitoring [...] (Resources)

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Submitted by more on 06/29/2010

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I received constant emails with the following message:

De: "cPanel ChkServd Service Monitor" <cpanel@xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx.xx> Assunto: tailwatchd - chkservd on xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx.xx status: hang Data: 30 de agosto de 2012 18:36:27 BRT Para: XXXXX@XXXXX.com

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On that crond error I found in another thread a suggestion to add "-s" to /etc/conf.d/crond, but that didn't work in my case.Also I was digging through the logs and found this in everything.log:Aug 23 17:58:43 localhost [ 17.280907] systemd[1]: Socket service syslog.service not loaded, refusing.I found this in "systemctl"syslog-ng.service