Posted by Jason Wong on 01/17/05 17:49

On Monday 17 January 2005 23:19, Al wrote:
> Erwin Kerk wrote:
> > Al wrote:
> > The CRON daemon only refreshes it's job list after a job in the current
> > list is completed. Therefore, the CRON daemon won't notice the
> > "every-minute" job until 3.01 pm.

Not sure if I've misunderstood what Al is saying but, the cron daemon checks
all crontabs for updates *every* minute. So at the most, 2 minutes after
you've updated your crontab the changes will take effect.

> Wow, that is a key point and makes sense. Boy, I read several refs about
> cronjobs and not one of them mentioned this.
>
> So, if I put my 1 minute job first in the list, all should be well?

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