[PLUG] Slackware cron

[Ed Sawicki]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 11:29, AthlonRob wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 11:18, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> > Speaking of Slackware, I'm using 8.1, which includes
> > Matt Dillon's crond instead of Vixie cron. I want to
> > use the crontabs in /var/spool/cron/crontabs instead
> > of the cron directories below /etc. However, when I
> > make a change to a crontab, crond doesn't recognize
> > the change. Sending crond a HUP doesn't help. The
> > man page doesn't mention anything about this. I must
> > have forgotten something. Help.
> 

> And cron checks the crontabs at the top of each minute for changes....

That's what I thought but no joy.


> Are you sure you have crond running?  I'd do a ps -aux | grep cron to be
> sure it is there.

I already tried that many times. It's running.


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