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Re: Cron problems



> Hi.  I have problems wih cron from the testing archives.  When I edit a
crontab
> file with `crontab -e', I must restart cron before the changes are applied
> (This means that I must `killall cron ; cron' before it works).  I find
this to
> be *VERY* annoying, and I was wondering if any of you had had such a
problem and
> if you did, how did you fix it?

Check the timestamps on the directories /var/spool/cron, /etc/cron.d, etc.,
and the files within them, to make sure none are set to a future time.
There was a bug that was fixed that dealt with that issue:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=77353

This is supposed to have been fixed 5 versions prior to the one that's
currently in testing, but you never know...

-- Kevin





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