I have a script which need to be run as cron job.
In the staging environment i could run the script as a cronjob. but in the production environment it is not working,
so i checked whether cron daemon is running on the production
ps -ax|grep cron
but this command gives me following error message.
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.7/FAQ
4120 ? Ss 0:06 crond
13640 pts/6 S+ 0:00 grep cron
could anybody explain me what is wrong with this command
Best Answer
ps ax|grep cron
The error you get is because of the-
in theps
command is not neededIt depends a bit on which version of ps you are using, on RHEL man ps says:
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