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From: sgerakin@hawk.ulowell.edu (Steve Gerakines)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMinix Problems
Message-ID: <1438@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 90 07:31:21 GMT
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In article <5030003@hpclove.HP.COM> wbb@hpclove.HP.COM (Bill Buzbee) writes:
>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?

I have Minix-ST 1.5.10, and the version of cron I had never did work
right.  I only got around to fixing it a few days ago.  I made only
a couple of changes to the load_crontab() procedure, and it works fine
now.  What I did was add two lines that were:

	if (!len) continue;

right before and after the statement:

	if (crontab[pos + len - 1] == '\n') {

That seemed to fix it.  Not exactly sure *why* that fixed it.. :-)

Hope that helps.
-Steve Gerakines

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