Crontab problem!

[Worapoj P.]

Dear all,

I'm not sure this is problem or not, I'm woking on HP-UX 11.00 on N4000 when I made
schedule job by crontab command after that I need remove some exsit job by edit "/var/spool/cron/crontabs/user1 (jobs of user1) and remake line following disable job. But this disable job stilled running on
time. Please explain me why? I well know we can modify cron job by "crontab -e"

Best regards,
Worapoj

[Paul Hite · Accepted solution]

cron reads in the crontabs when it starts up. The "crontab -e" command signals cron to reread the edited crontab. You can kill and restart cron to force the reread. But you are better off using "crontab -e".

[Anthony Goonetilleke]

LIke the previous reply said you will have to re-read the crontab file it is always a good idea to only use the crontab editor (-e) which is vi, also you can list the crontab by typing crontab -l username