Running a cron job manually?

Lonni J Friedman netllama
Fri Jul 20 07:09:46 PDT 2007


atd ?

On 7/20/07, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know a way to force cron to run a job manually?
>
> Explanation: I need to test cron jobs. Obviously I can run the job from
> the command line, but it generally has a very different operating
> environment than what it has when run by cron. Constantly changing the
> time in crontab is a pain as I need to do this over and over for
> testing. Is there some way to say "Hey, cron, run the job listed on line
> twelve!"
>
> Thanks,


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