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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Cron problems
Message-ID: <973@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 16:05:02 GMT
References: <201798@hrc.UUCP>
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In article <201798@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
>[note: posted for a friend. -- dan]
>
>I am currently using an IBC XLA 80486 based system running SCO/IBC Xenix 2.3.2,
>and am having problems with cron - it refuses to start each day's jobs 

This is a well known problem with SCO Xenix 2.X cron.  It tends to "go to
sleep" if no jobs are scheduled for long periods of time.  SCOs recommended
fix is to add a cron job that executes /bin/true once a minute.
I don't have the exact cron line handy; I assume your friend can figure that
out.


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