On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, strohsch wrote:
> > Ah I thought maybe you were using the onboard flash image.
> > So where are you putting the crontab entries? In a user crontab by
> > invoking "crontab -e"? or by editing /etc/crontab?
> >
> Sorry to be so obtuse; I am using the "crontab -e" approach. My
> understanding is that once I save my changes and leave the editor, the
> "cron" process is restarted automatically and the changes will take
> effect within the next minute or two.
Yep that's my understanding.
> Is it better to edit the /etc/crontab file directly and then restart
> the "cron" process?
not necessarily. However you don't need to restart cron when you change
/etc/crontab . It checks the file modification time to see if its changed
and rereads. man cron has details.
Baffled.
Jim
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