[Techtalk] Automatic update of Cron

[Phil Savoie]

Hi Dan,

Although I have not tried what you are doing, I have found that using an 
absolute path to the command and argument usually works.

Phil

On Friday 21 November 2003 06:59, 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?