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From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,news.software.b
Subject: Re: SMGR/Crontab Problem on 3B1 kills newsrun
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.203335.8499@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 20:33:35 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.055142.21744@colnet.uucp> <1991Feb8.030832.10976@uncle.uucp>
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In article <1991Feb8.030832.10976@uncle.uucp> donlash@uncle.UUCP (Donald Lashomb) writes:
>In article <1991Feb7.055142.21744@colnet.uucp> res@colnet.uucp (Rob Stampfli) writes:
>=I have just been experimenting with a problem I had with cnews running on
>=an AT&T Unix-PC (3B1) (3.51m OS).  Occasionally, newsrun would terminate
>=prematurely, leaving partially uncompressed files.  No news was lost -- the

   [...]

>=with the execution of crontab processes if they are not explicitly protected.
>=Anyone have any ideas?
>
>You might want to try my version of cron (recently posted to alt.sources and
>unix-pc.sources).  Crontab jobs in my version run unattached to any tty.
>BTW- you also get at(1), batch(1) and user crontab(1) with my cron.

	But, I never got the last part of that posting!  I remember some
other complaints, then I was in the throes of switching over from getting
forwarded copies of the unix-pc.* groups to running Cnews, and something may
have fallen in the bit-bucket at that time.  If others have not gotten
everything as well, can this be re-posted as a comp.sources.3b1 entry?

	Thanks
		DoN.
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