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From: bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Logging In as UUCP to Set crontab
Keywords: UUCP CRON
Message-ID: <202@consult.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 90 14:16:08 GMT
References: <250@silogic.UUCP> <25@raysnec.UUCP> <350@tygra.ddmi.com> <1534@sixhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey)
Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix
Organization: CCS Enterprises, Inc. - Easton, MD
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In article <1534@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <350@tygra.ddmi.com> jpp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:
>  cron seems to read new entries on SCO xenix and unix for me. The
>crontab and at commands send a signal to tell it to reread. That's a lot
>less likely to cause trouble that restarting it.


Just got hold of a "safe" way to restart cron.
1.   crontab -l > foo.bar
2.   crontab foo.bar

This will get all of your entries with the list option in 1.
and then restart cron with these entries in step 2.

Hope this helps, as we had quite some problems dealing with cron
until this work around came.

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