From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 21:51:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E4210656AD for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:51:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D958FC0A for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz20 with SMTP id 20so1232721bwz.13 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:51:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:received :reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=LxnraxrqCPNBrJVYSgs91z6g2/54PpDKZy8v2IZ1GmY=; b=JXz/5yj8xMLjb8uXpbOyJoFvboEfUIlxCeNcmrZU3R75ZvrkVmQBkJSNQu4SfqkKK6 f+ZFMEG4ECPbb6F8EtRDxi9vD+/5lhYO621W07cu+0Cfh5t9e64dMfepRYe0T5zc8/Mo wJq4VbAdlqrBo6nfkoUhUi1wJNDBtum+O8Of0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=f2ICAVIiyMW8r/Gble1tbVoCnjF9UZH5xWYU4wGs4o5hkZnedlG46Wst+aAzkS/LJc IKBgGzcCb/J3hywaumxIwh0/csofJwZSqjh2wNwpXw6TAIA2kg8Xas1YbdMD23ixKw0H DmAqJw4X18nXA6KiSztiDHNNeM5tdobUXcs7k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.126.92 with SMTP id b28mr7162770bks.47.1283464317146; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.123.78 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.123.78 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:51:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 22:51:57 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: patrick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:51:59 -0000 You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it. # killall -HUP cron Chris -------- Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 2 Sep 2010 21:11, "patrick" wrote: I recently upgraded a FreeBSD 7.0 system to 8.1-RELEASE (via freebsd-update) and am experiencing the strangest cron problem I have ever seen. My cron jobs run, but if I make any changes to my crontab, cron does not pick them up; it continues to operate based on the snapshot of crontabs it loaded when cron was started up. If I restart cron (/etc/rc.d/cron restart), the changes are then picked up, but again, any subsequent changes are ignored. I don't see any issues with the permissions, and when I edit a crontab, it says "crontab: installing new crontab", and the /var/log/cron log shows BEGIN EDIT, REPLACE, and END EDIT. I'm somewhat at a loss to figure out where the disconnect is, and it's impractical for me to have to restart cron any time any user updates their crontab. Has anyone come across this? Patrick _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"