I edited the Crontab to change the time our database is shutdown nightly. I vi the crontab file directly. When I issue crontab -l the change is listed. The database however shuts down at the original time every night. Is there some step I am missing in editing the crontab. I also tried issuing crontab cronfile and I get the error crontab: can't open your crontab file. Any help would be appreciated.

You say that you 'vi the crontab file directly'. Do you mean that you don't use "crontab -e"?? If not, my guess would be that the changes aren't being submitted to the cron daemon (just guessing about how it works). So, if you are not, try using "crontab -e"

If not using -e option... You can also input the file you are using to store the crontab lists... eg If you have a file named "cronlist" , vi that and save then fire up crontab by inputting the file.. Like this: crontab cronlist

That should have a redirect "less than" character between... "crontab cronlist" Not displaying in here properly....