Re: question about a cron job

On Monday 17 January 2005 23:19, Al wrote: > Erwin Kerk wrote: > > Al wrote: > > The CRON daemon only refreshes it's job list after a job in the current > > list is completed. Therefore, the CRON daemon won't notice the > > "every-minute" job until 3.01 pm. Not sure if I've misunderstood what Al is saying but, the cron daemon checks all crontabs for updates *every* minute. So at the most, 2 minutes after you've updated your crontab the changes will take effect. > Wow, that is a key point and makes sense. Boy, I read several refs about > cronjobs and not one of them mentioned this. > > So, if I put my 1 minute job first in the list, all should be well? -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts