Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

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From	Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org>
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Subject	Re: Restarting cron after crontab update
Date	Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:20:01 +0100
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:

> Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> wrote:
>> With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11
>
> When you say you made a change with emacs, what command did you run?

  emacs /etc/crontab

> What you are supposed to do is use the command crontab to start the
> editor of your choice.

I rediscovered command  EDITOR=emacs crontab -e  and made my changes. 
Command crontab -l shows the updated file.  I'm waiting to see the result.

Thanks for reminding me.  Roger

As one gets older, one forgets the stuff one should remember, and remembers the 
stuff one should forget.

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Restarting cron after crontab update Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-08 11:30 +0100
  Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-08 12:10 +0100
  Re: Restarting cron after crontab update debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-12-08 13:30 +0100
    Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-08 14:20 +0100
      Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-08 15:20 +0100
        Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-09 15:50 +0100
          Re: Restarting cron after crontab update <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-09 16:00 +0100
            Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-09 16:40 +0100
              Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-09 17:50 +0100
              User "nut" (Was Re: Restarting cron after crontab update) Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-09 18:00 +0100
              Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Darac Marjal <lists-debian-user@bendel.debian.org> - 2024-12-09 18:10 +0100
                Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-09 19:50 +0100
            Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-09 16:40 +0100
              Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-12-09 18:00 +0100
            Re: Restarting cron after crontab update Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-12-09 16:40 +0100

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