cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 3759

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I had a cron job setup that I cleared using cron -r last night.

This morning I tried to enable it again and get this error each time:

cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 3759: Resource temporarily unavailable

I have tried rebooting and it didn't help. OS = Debian.

Please paste the output of these here: ls -alrth /var/run/crond.pid ls -alrth /var/ — Istvan, Oct 17, 2009 at 23:52

ZaidZaid · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-18 01:27:12Z

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I was making a dumb error. I should be using crontab command instead of cron.

answered Oct 18, 2009 at 1:27

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Gerald Schneider · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-07 08:45:47Z

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cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 5021: Resource temporarily unavailable

after removing pid from cron.pid file it started working, could you please check once if that helps

Gerald Schneider

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answered Dec 7, 2022 at 8:26

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