Re: restart cron in Solaris

[Katherine Morris]

I'm using shell command, crontab takes a file as an argument.

crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Silver" <asilver@hbs.edu>
To: "Daniel Nilsson" <dlist@nlsn.nu>
Cc: <help-cfengine@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: restart cron in Solaris


> Daniel:
>
> I don't believe that cron accepts any signals. You will need to kill and
> restart the cron in order for your example to work. But, it might be
> easier to just use crontab -e rather than  editing a tmp file. That way,
> you won't have to worry about stopping and restarting cron. YOu should
> be able to do your example using crontab -e.
>
> alan
>
> Daniel Nilsson wrote:
> >
> > Does sending HUP to cron really reread crontabs in Solaris?
> >
> > Ive tried:
> >
> > "cron"     signal=hup inform=false
> >
> > But it doesnt work...
> >
> > How are you editing crontabs? (crontab -l > /tmp/aaa;vi /tmp/aaa;crontab
> > /tmp/aaa) ???
> >
> > /// Daniel
> >
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