Crontab issuing GET

[Rick Stevens]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:20 -0800, Roger Harrell wrote:
> 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?

That's correct.  cron caches the names of the files available when it
starts up and checks those.  If you add a file, it needs to be
restarted.

> -- 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-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [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
> 
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