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Restarting cron after changing crontab file?

Do I have to restart cron after changing the crontable file?

Solution

  • No.

    From the cron man page:

    ...cron will then examine the modification time on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified

    But if you just want to make sure its done anyway,

    sudo service cron reload

    or

    /etc/init.d/cron reload