04-29-2013
The crontab info remains but when the server gets rebooted, the crontab is no longer active and every time i must do a crontab -e and save it again.
I was looking for a way to include this in a .profile so that upon login it auto edits and saves again so it ensures it remains active.
I rather this approach for handing the task to people when im on keave as all i have to tell them do is to log in when the automated process i have created fails to ever run.
As to what out IT dept does...very good q...they tell the company what they will do rather than ask how they can help...the cron file location was locked off for viewing so i coulsnt access the folder.
Thanks for the info. I shall give the command you mentioned a whirl
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NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron
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ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if
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Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has,
cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.
SEE ALSO
crontab(1), crontab(5)
AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)