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Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

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On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 11:19:52 +0100, Roger Price wrote:
> With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 workstation.  I
> have done this before successfully.  After the change I ran
> 
>  systemctl restart cron && systemctl status cron
> 
> But now the change doesn't take effect.
> 
> I tried systemctl reload cron, but got the reply "Failed to reload
> cron.service: Job type reload is not applicable for unit cron.service".
> 
> What is the correct way to get cron to read the new crontab ?

Just saving the file is enough; you don't need to run a command
afterward.

What line did you add to /etc/crontab?  Please paste it here.  Note
that /etc/crontab uses a different format than personal crontab
files (there's an extra username field).


On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 14:11:50 +0100, Roger Price wrote:
> 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

That command edits your personal crontab file, which has the shorter
lines (no username field is needed, because all the jobs are run as
you).

I'm still suspecting you used the wrong format in one or both files,
so it would be helpful to know what line you added to each of them,
and why you were using /etc/crontab (system-wide) if your job was
going to run as you.  I'm not saying it's *wrong* to have all your
system-wide and personal jobs in one place, but it's non-traditional.

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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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