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

[kaboom at oobleck.net (Chris Ricker)]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jerry Yu wrote:

> Benjie I went down the path of troubleshooting the shell script, to no
> avail.  After I restarted crond,  it starts to kick.
> Richard, I'd be really surprised that you could re-produce it.  I was
> merely curious if anyone is ever as lucky as I was to actually run
> into it.

You're not the only one

I've seen similar on both Linux and on Solaris. Usually, it was either 
because of a weird interaction with a naming service or because of nscd 
(if you use nscd, start it before cron and never restart it without also 
restarting cron)

One of the other Unix admins here is paranoid enough about this that he 
*always* restarts the cron daemon after editing any root crontab ;-)

later,
chris