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Xref: sserve comp.unix.questions:33266 comp.unix.programmer:9013 comp.unix.aix:21177 comp.unix.shell:8724 comp.unix.bsd:11832 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!nic.csu.net!130.150.102.20!oleg Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: crontab having effect on several machines Message-ID: <OLEG.93Apr16160449@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> From: oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev) Date: 16 Apr 93 16:04:49 References: <1993Apr13.205021.27788@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca><C5JD15.12A@crdnns.crd.ge.com><1qko 75INNpsi@early-bird.think.com><VIXIE.93Apr15230704@cognition.pa.dec.com> Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University inFresno Nntp-Posting-Host: gd.cs.csufresno.edu In-reply-to: vixie@pa.dec.com's message of 15 Apr 93 23:07:04 Lines: 32 In article <VIXIE.93Apr15230704@cognition.pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.1B5 17/9/92 VAX/VMS V5.5-2; site nic.csu.net Path: nic.csu.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Date: 15 Apr 93 23:07:04 References: <1993Apr13.205021.27788@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <C5JD15.12A@crdnns.crd.ge.com><1qko75INNpsi@early-bird.think.com> Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com Lines: 15 Xref: filly comp.unix.questions:28010 comp.unix.programmer:10114 comp.unix.aix:22052 comp.unix.shell:9568 comp.unix.bsd:13458 [barry margolin] > That wouldn't necessarily work. On machines with SysV-style cron, changes > to crontab files won't be noticed automatically; the files are only read > when cron starts up, and you have to use the crontab(1) command to update > them. So if you NFS mounted the crontabs directory and used crontab(1) on > one machine, it wouldn't update cron on the other machines. fortunately, though, there's a free version of cron that doesn't have those problems. just the same, though, bill's answer is the best: even though it would sort-of-work, it's a bad idea to share crontabs with NFS. So, what's wrong with changing all crontabs to run system-wide scripts: 26 4 * * * /nfs/server/usr/adm/daily 26 2 * * 6 /nfs/server/usr/adm/weekly 26 6 * 7 * /nfs/server/usr/adm/monthly Oleg