Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:27:23 -0700 From: patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates Message-ID: <AANLkTimvdf6=UU8hf9vLweKiM1FBJn4nPFj031EojO5o@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C80C1D6.2050104@qeng-ho.org> References: <AANLkTing=YCBQWYanuKa1NHBcBoCX6Fhyg=zGA%2BebtvA@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTin0_9g_ngjPbPc69uUmUMU82HerbB5BORCckWkt@mail.gmail.com> <4c80af91.0XK7R1NzplpVQC/a%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4C80C1D6.2050104@qeng-ho.org>
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Yes, it's definitely updating: [root@juno /var/cron/tabs]# ls -ald /var/cron/tabs drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Sep 2 12:49 /var/cron/tabs And after editing my crontab: [root@juno /var/cron/tabs]# ls -ald /var/cron/tabs drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Sep 3 10:25 /var/cron/tabs I've been using FreeBSD since version 4, and this has never once been an issue, nor is this an issue on a system with a fresh install of 8.1. Patrick On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: > On 09/03/10 09:19, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> >> Chris Rees<utisoft@gmail.com> =A0wrote: >> >>> You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it. >>> >>> # killall -HUP cron >> >> Isn't crontab(1) supposed to do that, without separate intervention? > > From man cron > >> =A0 =A0 Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool direct= ory's >> =A0 =A0 modification time (or the modification time on /etc/crontab) has >> changed, >> =A0 =A0 and if it has, cron will then examine the modification time on a= ll >> =A0 =A0 crontabs and reload those which have changed. =A0Thus cron need = not be >> =A0 =A0 restarted whenever a crontab file is modified. =A0Note that the >> crontab(1) >> =A0 =A0 command updates the modification time of the spool directory whe= never >> it >> =A0 =A0 changes a crontab. > > From the original post crontab seems to be working, so all I can suggest > is to "ls -ld /var/cron/tabs" before and after using crontab -e and see > if the modtime is being changed correctly. >
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