Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:42:34 -0700 From: patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates Message-ID: <AANLkTing=YCBQWYanuKa1NHBcBoCX6Fhyg=zGA%2BebtvA@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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