On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Mike Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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>> For various reasons I moved /etc/cron.daily scripts to a new partition
>> (/home)
>> and make a soft link from original location to new location.
>>
>> It seems even anacron doesn't make my daily scripts run.
>
> Did you restart or HUP the daemon? They usually cache the files at startup
> and don't see changes unless you do the above. It could also be security
> bits like mentioned.
>
The man.page on a RedHat-type system for cron(1) which is vixie-cron
says that the cron daemon checks once per minute to see if various
crontabs have changed, and re-reads them if so.
carl
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