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From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: The swich with dailight savings time
Keywords: Cron
Message-ID: <1949@fallst.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 23:26:55 GMT
References: <9@phlpa.UUCP> <1991Apr9.073715.8969@tygra.UUCP>
Organization: Fallston, MD
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In <1991Apr9.073715.8969@tygra.UUCP> jp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:

>Oh, and XENIX cron doesn't respond to SIGHUP by reading the cron files
>again. If you update anything in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs, you have to
>kill the current cron and start a new one. Maybe SCO should fix this.

Don't tell me you're directly editing the files in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs!

Do this, to be safe, and to make cron re-read the changes you make:

o	crontab -l > tempfile

o	edit 'tempfile' to enter your cron changes

o	crontab tempfile

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