Python and cron jobs.

Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou tzot at sil-tec.gr
Thu Aug 7 05:54:15 EDT 2003


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:27:22 -0600, rumours say that Steven Taschuk
<staschuk at telusplanet.net> might have written:

>> [...] I just wish to know how to get the cron deamon to
>> reload the crontab.  Are you certain that it checks for changes or
>> reloads every minute?
>
>No.  There's lots of cron implementations, and I certainly haven't
>used all of them; perhaps some need a SIGHUP to reload, for
>example.  Check your local documentation to be sure, 'man 8 cron'
>or what have you, and/or just try it as Michael suggested.

Interfacing through the crontab executable should suffice for every cron
out there... 
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