Start crond.service on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I am programming some schedule task in my Ubuntu 16.04.

But when I try to start the crond.service by

sudo service crond start

I receive the message

crond.service
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: inactive (dead)

What's the problem? The tasks was added to the schedule by crontab command and look fine (the command works in the terminal, have the correct tree folder, I just added the day-hours parameters).

Solution

It's because the service name on 16.04 is cron, not crond. So your command should be:

sudo service cron  start

You can verify on your server by looking in the /etc/init.d folder. All the services are there.

ls -l /etc/init.d