CRON and SMTP

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

hmm...did you try Ben's suggestion? What I told you has worked for me on several RedHat boxen - without having to restart CRON.


Mike Szumlinski extolled:
> Unfortunately, I tried both suggestions and neither seemed to work. Do I
> have to restart cron before it takes place?
> 
>     [root@britney /etc]# more /home/ak/crontab
>     MAILTO=""
>     6,42 * * * *       /home/ak/stats > /dev/null
> 
> This is what I have going right now, and I have still been getting the
> e-mails...Here is what I get in a ps
> 
>     [root@britney /etc]# ps --User root
>     ... Lots o' processes
>     666 ?        00:00:00 gpm
>     811 ?        00:00:05 httpd
>     826 ?        00:00:00 crond
>     900 ?        00:00:00 atalkd
>     919 ?        00:00:00 rhnsd
>     942 tty1     00:00:00 login
>     ... Lots More
> 
> I did killall -HUP crond, but it didn't seem to do much at all.
> 
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Daniel R. Kilbourne
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Network Engineering
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