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crontab doesnt detect changes!
Name: mongar Date: December 9, 2007 at 08:30:41 Pacific OS: redhat ES 4U5 CPU/Ram: 1 Product: hp
Comment:
Hi, after changing /var/spool/crontab/user with the time and script i want to be schedualed for running , i need to restart crond daemon for the changes to be uploaded to the system. does it relate to some old/new cron version? how can i make it detect changes automatically? thanks in advanced
Name: wollie Date: December 9, 2007 at 22:56:58 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Mongar, how did you change the specific crontab ? Did you use "crontab -e" ? Then it will be refreshed automatically after saving the changes, no restart of the daemon is required.
cheers
Wollie
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Response Number 2
Name: mongar Date: December 10, 2007 at 01:10:56 Pacific
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Dear Wollie, thanks for the response i havent edited the file from crontab -e you are right. but after i did edited the file from crontab -u user -e its still not working. my cron tab log shows me only this input:
Dec 10 10:44:01 LNX-TEST crond[20973]: (user) RELOAD (cron/user) Dec 10 10:44:20 LNX-TEST crontab[3015]: (root) LIST (user) Dec 10 10:47:06 LNX-TEST crontab[3085]: (user) LIST (user) Dec 10 10:47:28 LNX-TEST crontab[3093]: (user) BEGIN EDIT (user) Dec 10 10:47:34 LNX-TEST crontab[3093]: (user) END EDIT (user) Dec 10 10:50:01 LNX-TEST crond[3139]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) Dec 10 10:52:21 LNX-TEST crontab[3265]: (user) BEGIN EDIT (user) Dec 10 10:52:38 LNX-TEST crontab[3265]: (user) REPLACE (user) Dec 10 10:52:38 LNX-TEST crontab[3265]: (user) END EDIT (user) Dec 10 10:53:01 LNX-TEST crond[20973]: (user) RELOAD (cron/user)
thanks in advanced mongar
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Response Number 3
Name: wollie Date: December 12, 2007 at 02:23:26 Pacific
Reply:
Mongar,
please post the changed entry.
wollie
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Response Number 4
Name: mongar Date: December 17, 2007 at 07:56:52 Pacific
Reply:
hi, here is the entry i entered via crontab -e: 34 17 * * * date >> /tmp/dates.txt which didnt work for me.
thanks
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Response Number 5
Name: wollie Date: December 18, 2007 at 03:08:02 Pacific
Reply:
no clue ! The entry is correct and does (!) work on SuSe and Tru64 Unix. Did you really edit the crontab file for that user ? Editing the file will sometimes result in queer effects.
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