Is there another location to update a cron that's run daily. I have updated the root cron located "/var/spool/cron/crontabs " After the update the cron doesn't run at the new time it was set at. It continues to run at the old time. Checking the root cron after it has been updated show the modification with the new time was saved. Any ideas?

You cannot simply edit the file. You must use the crontab command. cron reads the crontabs into core at startup and then will ignore changes you make to the files. The crontab program informs cron of the change. At this point you should stop and restart cron.

How do I restart the cron. I looked at the log file and the last line reads sigterm.

If my cron has recieved a SIGTERM. How do I restart the cron?