The following changes were made:

* Moved crontab from usher into CONFIG
  * Modified init script to use status_of_proc from init-functions
  * Modified usher to use init script status to check if daemon running

SNAP/cron.init

@@ -36,13 +36,7 @@ case "$1" in
     $0 start
     ;;
   status)
-    pid=$(pidofproc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON")
-
-    if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
-      echo "cron not running"
-    else
-      echo "cron running with PID: $pid"
-    fi
+    status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" || exit 1
     ;;
   *)
     echo "Usage: $0 [start|stop|restart|status]"