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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't Figure Out Crontab / 2.0.5
Date: 9 Dec 1995 01:44:30 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <4aaplu$33i@parody.tecc.co.uk>
References: <dhawkDJACBK.9yF@netcom.com>
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In article <dhawkDJACBK.9yF@netcom.com>, David H <dhawk@netcom.com> wrote:
>[Running a conferencing system remotely]
>
>Booted the 2.0.5 on November 15, 1995. Have changed the root
>cron entry (with crontab ) a couple of times since but
>the changes didn't take effect. I've got processes kicking
>off every night that I can't stop. Would rebooting fix anything?
Presumably you used either 'crontab -e' or something like
crontab -l > /tmp/cron.tmp
vi /tmp/cron.tmp
crontab /tmp/cron.tmp
to edit the root crontab? In which case it should work. Sending cron a
'HUP' signal might be worth trying, or even killing and re-starting it,
but neither of these should be necessary.
Rebooting won't help if other users (eg news) have cron jobs running -
have a look in /var/cron/tabs. If the machine's connected to the outside
world, it may be someone sending you a mail or news feed.
>Also, does /etc/crontab do anything? And what runs /etc/daily
>(and /etc/weekly, /etc/monthly)?
/etc/crontab is root's crontab (according to the comment at the start of
it), and is used for running /etc/{daily, weekly, monthly}.
James
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