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From: jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: crontab update
Keywords: crontab,question,update table,update crontab file
Message-ID: <63@dynasys.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 13:39:35 GMT
References: <855@edstip.EDS.COM> <374@charyb.COM>
Reply-To: jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher)
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Organization: Dynasys:  Consulting for the Future.
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In article <855@edstip.EDS.COM> ohrnb@edstip.EDS.COM (Erik Ohrnberger) writes:
>
>I have a question about the safest way to update the cron program's
>crontab file.  What I currently do is update the crontab file, and then
>rebot the system, to make sure that cron program reads the updated contab
>file.  Is all this required?  Does the cron program re-read the crontab
>file everytime that it wakes up?  Is there a special procedure to correctly
>update the crontab file?
>

The best way to have a crontab entry updated is to create the file,
su to the user that the entry will be assigned to, and run a command
called "crontab  <filename>".  For example:  If I want to run a
UUCP administrative program out of cron, I just create the entry
in a file called uucp.cron.  If I'm not already logged in as uucp
then I use su to do so.  I then type in "crontab uucp.cron".  The file
in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs in automatically updated and cron
immediately recognizes the new entry.


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