Scheduling tasks

[ShowMeLinux]

I modified my crontab file to this:

5 20 * * * /TEMP/develop/test1.job

However system didn't start that test1.job task at 20.05. Is there something wrong with my crontabfile? The test1.job worked well when I tried it in /TEMP/develop/ directory and wrote ./test1.job

And the cron -process was also running (which is default?!?). I checked that with ps -A.

Some help needed with scheduling tasks.

[Lazydog]

After you edit the file try restarting crond so it re-reads the file.

[ShowMeLinux]

How I re-start crond or cron? System doesn't let me kill the process.

[papetova]

Try HUPing it:

Find the PID and run:

kill -HUP PID
or
kill -1 PID

PID can usually be found in /var/run/ or using ps aux | grep cron

[Lazydog]

As root;

service crond restart