So, get this, for many-many weeks I have been literally fighting with cron and crontabs on this here web server (hosted at the-planet DC). Cron is a Unix utility (Unix daemon) that executes commands in a crontab file at a specified time and date. Cron is used to schedule such functions as backup and maintenance procedures. I kept adding crontabs and waiting, and waiting. Nothing! I could execute the command by hand or use a lee-rigged system (like pormanscron for Drupal) but neither were completely automated without side effects. Finally I realized that perhaps cron got 'jammed' and restarted the service.
sudo /etc/init.d/crond restart
Stopping crond: [FAILED]
Starting crond: [ OK ]FAILED?! The damn thing was never running in the first place. Blarg! So a note to anyone with similar issue, restart cron. ;-)
ON a side note; Up time = 172 days. That's pretty good, eh?
