06-16-2009
"crontab -e username" edits the live crontab and notifies cron of the change. There is no need to restart cron.
The technique suggested by "Just Ice" can be improved by copying the crontab twice to different names. You then have the original crontab saved if something goes wrong and a baseline file to "diff" against.
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