CRON and SMTP

[Ben Pfaff]

Mike Szumlinski <szumlins@msu.edu> writes:

> 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

You are showing us a file in your home directory.  Did you
replace the actual crontab with this crontab tab by issuing the
command "crontab /home/ak/crontab"?  There should be no need to
restart cron.
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