Jerry Houston wrote: > Joe Sloan wrote: >>> "You'll need to reboot your system for the new scheduling to take >>> effect." >>> >> >> Yeah that just sounds completely insane. Can you tell me, did the >> book say to schedule the task with cron? >> > > No. I think I mentioned earlier that I used the YaST System Backup > module to set it up. That writes to /etc/cron.d, but I didn't use > cron directly. (And that's the method described in the book as > well.)
OK, so it does use cron then - whether via a crontab command, or files in /etc/cron.d the end result is the same. and editing cron entries has never required a reboot in any version of unix ever made. That glaring blooper in itself is enough to make me doubt the author really knows much about linux, since it's such a basic point. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
