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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: su uucp in crontabs/root ?
Keywords: root uucp crontab su
Message-ID: <1524@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 May 89 20:26:10 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >>( I get strange behaviour if i just edit the crontab/uucp file without
 >>  submitting the changes via crontab {like it gets ignored} )
 >
 >The last time I read RTFM, it said somethink like:
 >"Cron reads the contents of /usr/spool/cron/crontabs _periodically_".

That sounds like the old (pre-S5R2) "cron", which checked the one and only
"crontab" file, in "/usr/lib/crontab" or wherever, once a minute.

The S5R3 "cron" and, I think, the S5R2 "cron", do not check any of the
"crontab" files unless they're told to; the "crontab" command tells it
to after updating the "crontab" file, which is why you have to use the
"crontab" command instead of just editing the file.