About troubleshooting cron services issues

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
If the jobs do not run on the scheduled date and time, you must restart the cron services.
On SUSE Linux, use one of the following commands to restart the cron services:
#service cron restart
or
#/etc/init.d/cron restart
On RHEL, use one of the following commands to restart the cron services:
#service crond restart
or
#/etc/init.d/crond restart
See About finding logs for troubleshooting.
See About using the gatherLogs utility for troubleshooting.