 | | | Cron does not work | Cron does not work 2003-11-14 - By Keith Mastin
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> 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.
..in memory. You need to restart crond after editing the file that crontab
executes unless crontab had been modified. This is all covered in man
cron.
> 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.
>
> 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.
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Keith Mastin
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Toronto, Canada
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