On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, this was my fault - when I installed the cron jobs yesterday, I > symlinked a crontab file into /etc/cron.d/ assuming it would work. > Apparently, it does not. Rather than figure out why, I dumped all > those entries into root's crontab. > > Is anyone aware of why /etc/cron.d was not read?
I've always had to restart cron to get it to re-read files I put into /etc/cron.d. I also put files in there, I've never tried symlinks. I've also found /var/log/crond to be very helpful when asking, "why the hell isn't cron running this?!?" I don't know what the script or command was so I can't check the logs myself. Jason
