Solved (I think) : Resetting Cron
Many, many, many thanks. One step further on the ladder of knowledge.
I've reset crontab as you suggested and sure enough the
/var/spool/cron/* file changed (and it did have the problem code in it).
Hopefully it will now work but won't be too long before I found out.
For some reason reload, stop and restart all had no impact. At least
the offending commands have gone from the file.
Regards,
Tim.
| -----Original Message-----
| From: sean finney [mailto:seanius@seanius.net]
| Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 4:18 AM
| To: Tim Barker
| Cc: Debian List
| Subject: Re: Resetting Cron
|
|
| hiya,
|
| cron jobs are also/actually? stored in /var/spool/cron/*,
| have you looked
| in there? i'm not familiar with how cron runs on debian,
| but on systems
| that strictly use /var/spool/cron, cron doesn't notice if you
| change the textfile without telling it (which is why the
| manpage says to edit crontabs with crontab -e). also, have
| you tried /etc/init.d/cron reload?
|
| hth
| --sean
|
| On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 09:26:49PM +1100, Tim Barker wrote:
| > 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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