On Thursday 06 April 2006 8:19 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Scott Leighton <helphand@pacbell.net> [04-06-06 22:46]:
On both boxes, I tend to use either kate or mcedit to edit these files. I just edited one on my home box (the one that works) using mcedit, cron detected the change and did a RELOAD of the changed file within a minute, here's the log entry
Apr 6 19:45:01 helphand /usr/sbin/cron[7027]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/cron.d/seccheck)
try using: crontab -e
Humm, don't think so. crontab -e is for editing user crontabs, the files in /etc/cron.d are not user crontabs. In fact, if I login root and issue crontab -e, what I see is root's crontab from /var/spool/cron/tabs/ The cron files in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.weekly, and /etc/cron.monthly are not meant to be edited with crontab -e as I understand it. Scott -- Si vis amari, ama POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.11-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)