# Workers

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/workers/5772>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/workers/5772 "2019-07-24T20:52:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![David\_Decker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@David\_Decker](https://community.zeek.org/u/David_Decker)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/workers/5772/1 "2019-07-24T20:52:21Z")

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Is it normal for the workers to stop? Test environment, so not actively passing traffic, but need to run broctl restart of broctl deploy to get the workers to start back up.

What are good things to look to see what the issues that is causing it.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![James\_inthe\_box](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@James\_inthe\_box](https://community.zeek.org/u/James_inthe_box)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/workers/5772/2 "2019-07-24T21:05:30Z")

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Make sure you've added:

0-59/5 \* \* \* \* root \<path\>/broctl cron

to your crontab.

James

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/workers/5772/3 "2022-05-06T15:46:38Z")

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