[mythtv-users] Why is my cron job not backing up my database?

[Gabe Rubin]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tried some of the tricks and none seems to work.  I think none of
> the entries in my crontab are actually running and haven't been since
> Nov 27, about the time I upgraded from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16.  So I
> think something in that switch has killed my crontab.  Any ideas where
> to start looking here?  Does cron itself log?

OK, I figured out what is going on here.  Cron is not starting up
automatically so it never runs.  I tried running "chkconfig crond on"
but I don't think that is how this service can be started
automatically.  Under fedora 16, how do I autostart crond?