nwat...@symcor.com writes: > Having been spoiled by Vixie Cron I was not aware until yesterday that > older cron daemons, found in Solaris and AIX, do not automatically reread > cron tables at regular intervals. Thus if you edit crontables using CF's > edit files method older cron daemons will not pick-up the changes. What > to do? I did try sending a HUP signal to an AIX cron daemon yesterday but > that did nothing. How do others on this list handle cron edits?
I cope with cron edits via... - Pulling it out into a file (crontab -l) - Editing the file - If the file changed, archiving the old copy somewhere (so I've got at least loose "version control" as to what changed when) - crontab < $file -- "cbbrowne","@","ca.afilias.info" Christopher Browne "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three" _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
