Re: question about a cron job

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Michael Sims wrote:
Jochem Maas wrote:

Michael Sims wrote:

"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."

say you change the crontab (do a save) in minute 2:49pm, then the file will be checked and reloaded, by the time that thats complete it will be passed 3:00:00pm (or more precisely after the jobtrigger was run), maybe what was meant was; that the 'everyminute' job would therefore trigger for the first time when cron checks jobs on 3:01:00pm?


Oh, I see.  At any rate, once it starts running at 3:01 it should then run every
minute from that point forward until it's removed from the crontab.  I'm not sure
that the OP was getting that point.  (BTW, I think you meant 2:59pm unless you've

typo.

they did this people skills thing once at a company I worked for, and one of the things they did was to get people to close the eye for exactly 1 minute, I sat there for about 2mins - everyone thought it was very funny. guess I've slowed down (and become more eratic) with age ;-)

got some really slow transfer rates on your hard drives. :)

or I have a php script designed to hog exactly 99% of all resources for no reason :-) for ten minutes, set in cron to run every hour at 49 mins past. hihi




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