Cron does not work 2003-11-13 - By Mike Kercher
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From: valhalla-list-admin@(protected)
[mailto:valhalla-list-admin@(protected)] On Behalf Of James Ho
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:42 PM
To: valhalla-list@(protected)
Subject: Re: Cron does not work
yep, I used crontab -e. It doesn't work. Is it because the crond
daemon
has failed? When I check using ps -ef | grep crond, I find that the
daemon
is still running.
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From: mark_denni@(protected)
To: valhalla-list@(protected)
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:16 PM
Subject: RE: Cron does not work
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From: James Ho [mailto:james.ho@(protected)]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 6:07 PM
To: valhalla-list@(protected)
Subject: Cron does not work
I have a problem, I have set up a task as
a cronjob but it only works when I restart the
crond daemon in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory.
The statement is:
* * * * * echo "Hello" >> /tmp/test.txt
When I restart crond, this works perfectly. But when
I change
that statement to:
* * * * * echo "New Test" >> /tmp/test.txt
the cron does not read this new statement and
continues executing the
old statement. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
James -
Are you using crontab -e to change the statement?
That
should work. But if you simply change the file with
a text
editor, you will see the behavior your are talking
about.
- Mark
[DENNI,MARK (A-Americas,ex1)]
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