Re: cron question.
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, R Chris Ross wrote:
>
> I wondered if anyone knows weather cron responds correctly to a
> SIGHUP or not? I did the following and managed to kill it all
> together.
>
> kill -HUP `ps -aux|grep [c]ron|awk '{print $2}'`
>
> Is there a different signal to send it or is it a daemon that has to
> be killed then restarted?
I assume you want to send it a signal so that it re-reads the crontab
files. You don't need to do that. If you have modified a crontab cron will
detect this and re-read it automatically.
Remco
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