On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, R Chris Ross wrote: > > I wondered if anyone knows weather cron responds correctly to a > SIGHUP or not? I did the following and managed to kill it all > together. > > kill -HUP `ps -aux|grep [c]ron|awk '{print $2}'` > > Is there a different signal to send it or is it a daemon that has to > be killed then restarted?
I assume you want to send it a signal so that it re-reads the crontab files. You don't need to do that. If you have modified a crontab cron will detect this and re-read it automatically. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .