RE: [PHP] question about a cron job

Jochem Maas wrote: > Michael Sims wrote: >> "Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool >> directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, >> and if it has, cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs >> and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be >> restarted whenever a crontab file is modified." > > say you change the crontab (do a save) in minute 2:49pm, then the file > will be checked and reloaded, by the time that thats complete it will > be passed 3:00:00pm (or more precisely after the jobtrigger was run), > maybe what was meant was; that the 'everyminute' job would therefore > trigger for the first time when cron checks jobs on 3:01:00pm? Oh, I see. At any rate, once it starts running at 3:01 it should then run every minute from that point forward until it's removed from the crontab. I'm not sure that the OP was getting that point. (BTW, I think you meant 2:59pm unless you've got some really slow transfer rates on your hard drives. :)