> Hi. I have problems wih cron from the testing archives. When I edit a crontab > file with `crontab -e', I must restart cron before the changes are applied > (This means that I must `killall cron ; cron' before it works). I find this to > be *VERY* annoying, and I was wondering if any of you had had such a problem and > if you did, how did you fix it?
Check the timestamps on the directories /var/spool/cron, /etc/cron.d, etc., and the files within them, to make sure none are set to a future time. There was a bug that was fixed that dealt with that issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=77353 This is supposed to have been fixed 5 versions prior to the one that's currently in testing, but you never know... -- Kevin
