I am trying to get the cron daemon to start on reboot on an instance of Amazon Linux (Linux version 3.14.57-34.46.amzn1.x86_64). I have run:
$ sudo chkconfig crond on
If I run:
$ chkconfig --list crond
I get:
crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:on
The system's default run level is 3.
Starting/stopping crond manually works fine, and the commands in my crontab are executed.
$ sudo service crond <start|stop|restart>
After reboot there are no warning or error logs in /var/log/cron
(there are non-error logs once cron is started manually) or /var/log/messages
. Am I missing something? How can I debug this?