Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

From	Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Restarting cron after crontab update
Date	2024-12-09 16:40 +0100
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user
> name as part of the command:
> 
>   rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh  11 > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> will run the command "rprice" on the args "/mnt..."; most of
> the time this will be a "no such file or so-and-so", sometimes
> it might lead to surprising results ;-)

In which event cron will send a complaining email to the appropriate
user. Since Mr. Price hasn't mentioned any such emails, I conjecture he
is not monitoring his emails in /var/mail, and probably should be.

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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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