[Techtalk] Automatic update of Cron

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Friday 21 November 2003 22:59, Dan Richter wrote:
> I have a bunch of networked machines and I'm trying to get them to all
> update their crontabs at 5:30 AM every morning from a common file (on a
> networked filesystem). Here's the relevant crontab entry:
>
> 30 5  * * *     crontab $HOME/crontab.txt
>
> It doesn't work (nothing changes). Anyone have any ideas as to why?

Are you talking about the system crontab (ie, /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d 
etc), or userspace crontabs?

I'm about 99.9% certain the the above command is only for userspace crontabs.

Rasjid.


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