>On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>> >I'm having trouble getting cron to exec under RH 6.1. Even
>> >a simple job to 'ls' every minute does not fly as shown below.
>> >If I put a script in /etc/cron.hourly that works though.
>> >Thanks for any tips.
>
>You probably know this, but after editing /etc/crontab you need to restart
>cron (or send -HUP to it) to make it read the changes. Putting something
>in /etc/cron.* doesn't need this.
>
>Hossein
First off, you shouldn't be editing /etc/crontab. If you have jobs you want
to run as root, do the following as root:
crontab -e
Now add, or change, what you want.
The same thing applies as users.
MB
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