17 Sep
2008
17 Sep
'08
5:56 p.m.
Does anyone have any idea how to force cron to reload its user-based crontabs?
I have a setup script for a system which does a lot of things, amongst them copying a crontab into /var/spool/cron/crontabs and settings its permissions, however cron ignores it until I crontab -e and make a change (eg add and delete something) and save it. Restarting cron or even the box is not sufficient to make it reload.
I discovered that the mtime of the crontabs folder is relevant, but "touch"ing it hasn't solved the problem.
(System is Ubuntu 8.04 server.)
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