Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:19:29 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: gibblertron@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates Message-ID: <4c80af91.0XK7R1NzplpVQC/a%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin0_9g_ngjPbPc69uUmUMU82HerbB5BORCckWkt@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTing=YCBQWYanuKa1NHBcBoCX6Fhyg=zGA%2BebtvA@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTin0_9g_ngjPbPc69uUmUMU82HerbB5BORCckWkt@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote: > You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it. > > # killall -HUP cron Isn't crontab(1) supposed to do that, without separate intervention? > On 2 Sep 2010 21:11, "patrick" <gibblertron@gmail.com> 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 ... > Has anyone come across this? Yes, so long ago I no longer remember which Unix flavor it was on. Could have been SunOs 3.5 or 4.x, some version of Solaris, UnixWare, or even FreeBSD 4.x.
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