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From: david@llustig.uucp (David Schachter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: crontab update
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.003245.2932@llustig.uucp>
Date: 14 Mar 90 00:32:45 GMT
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Someone wrote:
>>The *only* documented and reliable ways of getting cron to recognize
>>a new crontab is to use the crontab command.

Or become root, kill cron, change/add/delete crontab stuff, and re-invoke
cron.  Violent, but effective.  Not, perhaps, documented, but reliable.  Quite.

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