Check the man page. the -u <username> will do another user's crontab. If you edit one of the crontab files directly, it won't update cron.
Mark On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jianping Zhu wrote: > Thank you for response > i found we i use crontab -e, the file /var/spool/corn/root not > /etc/crontab is changed. how can i change /etc/crontab? > > Thanks > > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jianping Zhu wrote: > > > > > > > > when did systme call /ect/crontab? if i make change to /etc/crontab how > > > to let the change take effect? > > > Thanks > > > > Well, if you edit crontab with: > > > > #crontab -e > > > > then changes go into effect in a very short time. Cron reads its config > > file at the top of the minute. > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -------------------------------- > Jianping Zhu > Department of Computer Science > Univerity of Georgia > Athens, GA 30602 > Tel 706 5423900 > -------------------------------- > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
