March 2, 2009
5:27 p.m.
Jim Savoy wrote:
I am not all that familiar with cron. Is that "crontab -u mailman crontab.in" something you need to run every time you reboot the system? Or does it add something to /etc/cron.d or /etc/cron.daily or /etc/crontab? (I don't see anything new in those).
Jim Savoy answers himself:
Before I get blasted with RTFMs, I did just read the manpage for crontab, and it says that each user may maintain their own separate crontabs, so I have now deduced that the command I ran activated that. I am still not sure if I am supposed to run that every time we reboot or if it's permanent (and if I change crontab.in (to comment out tomorrow's 8:00 am run, for instance) do I have to execute that command again?). Thanks.