Crontab issuing GET

[Roger Harrell]

Ok, that worked. Now explain to me why doing it this way worked. It ends
up placing a file in /etc/cron.d with the exact same permissions of the
file I created manually. 

So the manual which states:
" The cron daemon checks the etc/crontab file, the etc/cron.d/
directory, and the /var/spool/cron directory every minute for any
changes. If any changes are found, they are loaded into memory. Thus,
the daemon does not need to be restarted if a crontab file is changed." 

Means that it picks up changes in /etc/cron.d to files that it's already
aware of, but will not pick up new files?

Thanks,
Roger




-- Original --
Try with crontab -e logging with your user ID and give 

15 3 * * * /usr/bin/GET http://path

Thanks

Best regards
Bala

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Roger
Harrell
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:06 AM
To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Subject: Crontab issuing GET

I need some help with the way RH Linux 9 handles it's crontab. I have
need to have a cron that issues a GET request. I have tried the
following in /etc/crontab: 15 3 * * * /usr/bin/GET http://path 
And
15 3 * * * GET http://path

I've also tried creating a file in both /etc/cron.d and /var/spool/cron
containing each of these two commands. The command works from a command
line with any user I've tested it with. It seems that the cron simply
isn't excecuting, but I get nothing in the cron daily report about it.
Any clues what I'm missing?

Thanks,
Roger