crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.

Edward C. Bennett edward at ukecc.UUCP
Tue Nov 19 08:54:50 AEST 1985


In article <573 at kitty.UUCP>, larry at kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> 	My question: does anyone know why simply editing the particular crontab
> file will not work, and why the crontab command MUST be used?
> 
> ===  Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York        ===

	On our 3B20 we found that the only way to get cron to reread
/usr/spool/cron/crontabs/* was to kill and restart /etc/cron.

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Edward C. Bennett

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