I'm on Ubuntu 15.04, and logged in as root, but when I run
ps -ef | grep cron | grep -v grep
to make sure the cron daemon is running, I see the -f option, which means it is running in the foreground and not as as a daemon. I have not changed anything related to cron since setting this up (on DigitalOcean, from their stock 15.04 image). Why would it not run as a daemon?
(And yes I know I should be using systemd instead. This was meant to be a quick & dirty solution—since cron is so simple and reliable, right!?—until I could get my *.service files debugged and working.)
