Roger Price <deb...@rogerprice.org> wrote: > With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 > workstation. I have done this before successfully.
When you say you made a change with emacs, what command did you run? What you are supposed to do is use the command crontab to start the editor of your choice. You should not start emacs and use it to edit a cron file. There is no need to restart cron yourself, as Michael said. > After the change I ran > > systemctl restart cron && systemctl status cron > > But now the change doesn't take effect. > > I tried systemctl reload cron, but got the reply "Failed to reload > cron.service: Job type reload is not applicable for unit > cron.service". > > What is the correct way to get cron to read the new crontab ? > > Thanks, Roger >
