How to restart cron after change crontab?

Cron will then examine the modification time on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified.

 

But if you just want to make sure its done anyway:

sudo service cron reload

or

/etc/init.d/cron reload
sudo service cron restart
sudo systemctl reload crond
How to restart cron after change crontab?
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