I thought crontab had a parameter to reload.. but I didnt find one... however I seem to remember having to hup crond to get it to re-read crontabs. I belive crond only reads crontabs only at start...
man crond for great justice.... Jamie On Monday 16 December 2002 09:34 pm, Rob Hudson wrote: : I'm trying to get a shell script to run every Saturday morning at 4am. : Instead of editing /etc/crontab like I usually do, i thought I'd set it : up in my user crontab. : : I ran crontab -e as my user, and added the following: : : 0 4 * * 6 rob /home/rob/bin/bkup : : Which runs my backup script. Is there something else I need to do? The : timestamps on the files say it didn't run this weekend. : : Thanks, : Rob : : _______________________________________________ : Eug-LUG mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- No microsoft products were used to produce this message. EUG-LUG Mailing List: http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
