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From: wbb@hpclove.HP.COM (Bill Buzbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMinix Problems
Message-ID: <5030003@hpclove.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 90 16:59:31 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard Calif. Language Lab
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I've looked into my cron and atrun problems a little deeper, and now
now atrun works (and cron sort-of works).


It seems that atrun moves jobs to be run into directory
    /usr/spool/at/past/
prior to running them.  If the directory isn't there, nothing is run.
Create the "past" directory and atruns works fine.

My /usr/lib/crontab file does nothing by fire up atrun on the
minute:
       * * * * * /usr/bin/atrun
When I manually invoke cron after logging in as root, it seems to work
fine, but when I try to fire it up from /etc/rc (last line in file:
/usr/bin/cron), I get a system crash the first time it wakes up. 

Any ideas?

.........bill buzbee