Re: restart cron in Solaris

[Marion Hakanson]

Darren Dunham wrote:
> 
> 1) Put crontab in tempfile.
> 2) su $user "crontab tempfile"
> 3) rm tempfile
> . . .
> Another alternative is more brute-force.
> 1) Put the crontab(s) in place.
> 2) Kill and restart cron.


We have some old pre-cfengine code using "rdist" still lying around.
In that old code, we did this (no temp file needed):

1) Put the crontab in place, /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$user
2) su $user -c "crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$user"

Regards,

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Marion Hakanson <hakanson@cse.ogi.edu>
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