http://www.andyblyler.com/blog/2007/01/04/cron-ignoring-changes-in-etccrond/ programmer / sys admin at Barracuda & Nutshell, musician, soloing student pilot Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:36:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.andyblyler.com/blog/2007/01/04/cron-ignoring-changes-in-etccrond/comment-page-1/#comment-31789 Brandon Craig Rhodes Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:36:23 +0000 http://beta.andyblyler.com/blog/2007/01/04/cron-ignoring-changes-in-etccrond/#comment-31789 <p>Thanks so much for this pointer — it helped me get my cron jobs running again! Oddly enough, cron my my modern (late-2011) Ubuntu install will notice a file-only change in mtime if the previous version of the crontab was valid; but if the crontab gets a syntax error or an invalid username in it and gets rejected, then only a directory mtime modification makes cron start paying attention to the file again.</p> Thanks so much for this pointer — it helped me get my cron jobs running again! Oddly enough, cron my my modern (late-2011) Ubuntu install will notice a file-only change in mtime if the previous version of the crontab was valid; but if the crontab gets a syntax error or an invalid username in it and gets rejected, then only a directory mtime modification makes cron start paying attention to the file again.

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