Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dptcdc!lethe!berner!richard
From: richard@berner.uucp (Richard Greenall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Cron Problems
Message-ID: <1989Jul27.133225.138@berner.uucp>
Date: 27 Jul 89 13:32:25 GMT
References: <7613@charlie.OZ> <24919@dhw68k.cts.com> <241@jwren.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@berner.UUCP (Richard Greenall)
Organization: Berner Information Inc., Toronto ON
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In article <241@jwren.UUCP> jcw@jwren.UUCP (John C. Wren) writes:
>
>Actually, the best fix to the cron problem is let /bin/true run every 6
>hours.  This keeps you from having to worry about how scheduling other
>jobs may or may not affect it.  I had this problem, and it really hacked
>me off until someone just guessing said what the problem might be.  Sure
>enough, worked like a champ.
>

Actually SCO has a fix for this, and it is xnx080