On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Lars M Gustafsson wrote:

> I have 2 (easy) questions.
> 
> 1) When does cron read the root crontab , i have made alterations
> and sent a HUP to cron, but nothing happens, after a reeboot i seems
> to read it though, but i'm not much inte rebooting :-)

According to the man page for cron, it wakes up each minute, and checks
the mod time on its spool directory and on /etc/crontab. If they have been
modified since the last time cron woke up, it re-reades whatever has
changed. So give it a minute, and it should notice automatically.

> 2) I have installed a webcam that ftp's a jpeg to the server every minute
> it works fine, BUT i get at ftp-log msg to the telnet-screen every time
> (logged in as root). I have tried to make alterations to syslog.conf
> and even sent HUP to syslogd , but.. nothing works. Is there a way
> to disable these messages.

What are the messages? Also, when you invoke the ftp command, are you
routing the output to /dev/null?

Take care,

Bill