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Re: Resetting Cron



Well, if you added the crontab as a user by running crontab, and put it in
/etc/cron.d then it will be run twice, since it's scheduled twice.

And that's what it sounds like to me.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Barker" <timbarker@iprimus.com.au>
To: "Debian List" <debian-user-digest@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 5:26 AM
Subject: Resetting Cron


> I have a problem changing a Cron script.  Whilst I have changed the
> actual script in /etc/cron.d/mrtg to do what I want the Cron job is
> still using the original commands.  Now it must be looking somewhere
> else on the system but I cannot find any other references in any other
> directory.  I thought it was only necessary to update crontab to get the
> Cron job working on the changes but even restarting the system doesn't
> seem to help.
>
> I apologise if this is a trivial error but cannot find any debian
> specific information that might point me in the right direction.  Would
> greatly appreciate any help on this problem.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Tim Barker.
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