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?
At 15:02 27/9/2001, Darrell May wrote: >Hey everyone, I'm having a bit of an issue with cron. Maybe it is simply >lack of knowledge on my part so if you see an error in my comments, >please share your wisdom. > >I'm trying to add, as an example: > >/etc/cron.d/mynewcronjob > >(I'm of course doing this the template way). > >Now it 'appears' that a full reboot is required to have these new jobs >read and launched correctly. I've tried all the variants shown below: > >/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start|stop|reload|restart > >but only a reboot works. What am I missing? Des -- 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
