Cron job problem

[paladin256]

I had this issue a while ago and someone was kind enough to tell me how to fix it, butI lost the instuction so I am hopeing that someone can again help me.

I have some cron jobs set up to do tape back-ups run statistics and etc. every night. They we working fine but I had to edit one of the jobs and now they are not running. I can run them manually and they work perfectly. Someone posted before to do something like cron -s or crontab -s I just can't remember what it was.

Thanks for any help that can be provided.

 

[bi]

Was it the script you edited or the actual cron entry?

If it was the cron entry, you would have had to use crontab -e to force cron to re-read the crontab. If you edited the crontab with an ordinary editor, cron won't know about the new entry, unless you either stop and restart the cron daemon, or try running crontab -e and then saving the crontab again.

If it was the script you edited, there may be other reasons for it not running.