[ale] RHL9 crond doesn't read in new crontab entries

[sarumont at sigil.org (Richard Kolkovich)]

Jerry Yu wrote:
> I wrote a simple bash script then added it to the cron a RHL9 boxen.
> Weird enough, it didn't take. Initially I troubleshooted my shell
> script, you know, adding verbose output and such. The /var/log/cron
> shows other cron jobs ran just fine. After pulling my hair a little,
> it dawned on me that the new job didn't show in the /var/log/cron at
> all. The fix, of course is to restart crond.
> 
> Hmmm. I inherited the boxen a year ago. It has been up a bit over  500
> days now. I never experienced such problem before with Solaris or
> Linux. The symptoms repeated on another RHL9 boxen (up about 483
> days). Any idea why?

Initially, I would guess that it is a different cron daemon.  How are 
you adding these jobs?  Are you using crontab -e or editing /etc/crontab 
directly?

I have never had to restart vixie-cron when adding a cronjob via either 
of those methods...

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Richard Kolkovich