On Mar 20, 7:02 am, smlunatick <yves...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a server which has several timed "cron" tasks that must
> complete. A few weeks back, a power failure occured and now these
> cron jobs do not work. Two days ago, I turned on the cron job 'log'
> and today the log is showing "c queue max run limit reached" I
> looked for more info on this messgae and was suggested to check a line
> in th cron's queuedefs. The original file did not have a "c." line so
> cron will use default settings.
>
> How can I completely remove the limits or find/fix my problem?

The obscure-looking "c" just indicates a cron job. Other values are
"a" for at job and "b" for batch jobs.

Perhaps you have too many running cron jobs in the queue. Cf. the
MAXRUN variable in the same configuration file you changed to turn on
cron logging.

Are your cron jobs now launching and not terminating?

--RLR