Des Dougan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Darrell, > > You shouldn't have to do anything - the cron daemon refreshes when > changes have been made according to the man page. For example, when I > made the change for flexbackup, it was picked up OK. Do you want to > post an example to see if there's something obvious you may have missed? In the example below I have raidmonitor checking every 15 minutes and RAV updating very 30 minutes. Everything is working just fine so I know my /etc/cron.d entries are correct. Sep 28 09:30:00 e-smith CROND[8328]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/raidmonitor -v) Sep 28 09:30:00 e-smith CROND[8329]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/rav8/bin/ravav --update engine --host ftp.us.ravantivirus.com > /dev/null 2>&1) Sep 28 09:40:00 e-smith CROND[8595]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as) Sep 28 09:45:00 e-smith CROND[8696]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/raidmonitor -v) Sep 28 09:50:00 e-smith CROND[9440]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as) Sep 28 10:00:00 e-smith CROND[10964]: (root) CMD (/sbin/e-smith/awstats- pp -s -n) Sep 28 10:00:00 e-smith CROND[10965]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as) Sep 28 10:00:00 e-smith CROND[10966]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/raidmonitor -v) Sep 28 10:00:00 e-smith CROND[10967]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/rav8/bin/ravav --update engine --host ftp.us.ravantivirus.com > /dev/null 2>&1) To be more clear, what I'm reporting, at least for me, is cron doesn't seem to pick up changes automatically. Is it supposed to? I changed these templated entries, which were running every hour on the 15 & 30 minute mark, once per hour: [root@e-smith /root]# cat /etc/cron.d/raidmonitor 15 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/raidmonitor -v [root@e-smith /root]# cat /etc/cron.d/ravupdate 30 * * * * root /usr/local/rav8/bin/ravav --update engine --host \ ftp.us.ravantivirus.com > /dev/null 2>&1 To run every 15 & 30 minutes: [root@e-smith /root]# cat /etc/cron.d/raidmonitor */15 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/raidmonitor -v [root@e-smith /root]# cat /etc/cron.d/ravupdate */30 * * * * root /usr/local/rav8/bin/ravav --update engine --host \ ftp.us.ravantivirus.com > /dev/null 2>&1 But cron did not pick up the changes automatically. Nor did: /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond stop|start|restart|reload ... etcetera do any good It took a full reboot to get everything working just fine. Could simply be my server, I don't know. I was just wondering if there was some other command to use to force cron to refresh. I always thought reboots were for Windows :) Regards, -- Darrell May DMC NETSOURCED.COM http://netsourced.com http://myEZserver.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
