RE: changes to crontab not effective

["Jochen Daum" <jochen.daum@cans.co.nz>]

Hi Andreas!

> Hello
> 
> Jochen Daum wrote:
> 
> > I've made changes to crontab, of which only one is working.
> > /etc/crontab says, cron doesn't have to be restarted, and 
> I wouldn't
> > know how, cause there is no rccron like in Suse.
> 
> Try "/etc/init.d/cron reload" or "/etc/init.d/cron restart".
>
I think I tried the second one, also tried now the first one with

5/* * * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh

but didn't work.

Any other ideas?

Jochen

 
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