Cron only reads the crontab file when it starts. Man cron and search for 'examines'. As you found out, sending a HUP doesn't work. Since cron runs as a SMF controlled service in Solaris 10, killing the process will cause SMF to restart it. The crontab file will then be read and changes, if any, will be implemented. I used the following to test it:
pgrep -fl cron 508 /usr/sbin/cron sudo kill 508 # or sudo pkill cron pgrep -fl cron 1368 /usr/sbin/cron # new process ID 1368 means it was restarted. I hope this helps. --ron -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
