crontab update

[Dennis Donovan]

In article <1990Mar14.003245.2932 at llustig.uucp> david at llustig.UUCP (David Schachter) writes:
>Someone wrote:
>>>The *only* documented and reliable ways of getting cron to recognize
>>>a new crontab is to use the crontab command.
>
>Or become root, kill cron, change/add/delete crontab stuff, and re-invoke
>cron.  Violent, but effective.  Not, perhaps, documented, but reliable.  Quite.
>


I just did this the other day. I'm on a Sun 3/60. I updated crontab then sent a Hangup
Signal to the cron process with:

"kill -HUP ##"		where ## is the process ID from "ps"

It worked fine!!


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