A Crontab Question

[Steve Holmes]

Well, you're probably right though I used to do that all the time and
I would simply rerun crontab again to "reload" the tab file.  That
seemed to work for me.

I just remembered though, Slackware has the /etc/cron.xxx directories
for simply cron scheduling where xxx is daily, weekly, monthly, etc.
Just put whatever commands you want run inside any of those
directories and you're good to go.  But he wanted to remove an
existing entry from his system so not exactly sure what he has for a
crontab settup on his machine.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:29:11PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> Never edit crontab files directly!  You should always use "crontab -e" to
> edit them.  Otherwise, they will not get re-read by cron until the next
> reboot.