: I have modified a cron job on my sparc 20 running sunos 5.4.
: I would like the system to begin running this new set of
: instructions without rebooting. This was simple enough
: with 4.1.3...I am unable to do it under 5.4, however.
: Could anyone shed some light on this for me?
See "man cron" (taken from sunos 5.3 however):
cron only examines crontab files and at command files during
process initialization and when a file changes using the
crontab or at commands. This reduces the overhead of check-
^^^^^^^
ing for new or changed files at regularly scheduled inter-
vals.
See "man crontab":
SYNOPSIS
crontab [ filename ]
crontab -e [username]
crontab -r [username]
crontab -l [username]
OPTIONS
-e The -e option edits a copy of the current user's
crontab file, or creates an empty file to edit if
crontab does not exist. When editing is complete,
the file is installed as the user's crontab file.
If a username is given, the specified user's cron-
tab file is edited, rather than the current user's
crontab file; this may only be done by a
privileged user. The environment variable EDITOR
determines which editor is invoked with the - e
option. The default editor is ed(1).
Don't you have man pages, or is 5.4 different from 5.3?
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Greetings, Marco
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