On 3/4/2010 9:21 AM, Matt Richards wrote:
> True, only if you have the full crontab available as a file. With cfengine, I
> just edit the cron entry directly without pulling the whole file. But, that
> is another way to do it. I suppose you could do a
>
> crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<username>
>
> Interesting, I never thought to do it that way. It might be more consistent
> across platforms than creating different methods for SIGKILL, SIGHUP, restart.
You are really 'supposed' to access crontabs through the api: "crontab
-l" to get a copy, "crontab filename" to re-install, 'crontab -e" to
edit/reinstall interactively. That (maybe) avoids some race conditions
and notifies the daemon of the change.
--
Les Mikesell
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