Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-04 Thread perryh
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 09/03/10 09:19, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chris Reesutis...@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? From man cron

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-03 Thread perryh
Chris Rees utis...@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 gibblert...@gmail.com wrote: I recently upgraded a FreeBSD 7.0 system to 8.1-RELEASE (via

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-03 Thread Arthur Chance
On 09/03/10 09:19, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chris Reesutis...@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? From man cron Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-03 Thread patrick
Yes, it's definitely updating: [r...@juno /var/cron/tabs]# ls -ald /var/cron/tabs drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 Sep 2 12:49 /var/cron/tabs And after editing my crontab: [r...@juno /var/cron/tabs]# ls -ald /var/cron/tabs drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 Sep 3 10:25 /var/cron/tabs I've been

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Rees
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 gibblert...@gmail.com wrote: I recently upgraded a FreeBSD 7.0 system to 8.1-RELEASE (via