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/etc/inittabover proper service management is rather foolish in 2016./etc/inittabis a thing of the past; and, for the reasons that rubo77 alludes to, using it won't even survive an upgrade to the current Debian 8. The ever-growing logfile is equally as bad an idea in 2016. We've long-since learned better than that, too.upstartorsystemd. At least with systemd, this problem will solve itself -- it will make sure crond stays running for you (at least, that's a capability systemd offers).JdeBPRegardless of what year it is, a working system that works is valuable when the alternatives offer very little benefit and require an additional learning curve on the part of the user. In this case, for only ensuringcrond, using the existing sysvinit is more useful than installing a more complex system which the user has no experience with, or a script which itself may be buggy and turn into a resource hog. An upgrade to a non-sysvinit based system will surely solve hiscrondproblem, but then create numerous other transition challenges.