Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!flatlin!ptavv!ralf From: ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org (Ralf Wenk) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Fixes for the more stable cron(1M) Message-ID: <1991Feb20.195929.01516@ptavv.ka.sub.org> Date: 20 Feb 91 19:59:29 GMT Organization: The known space Lines: 46 Today I noticed again that Fred van Kempen's new cron does not start a job when it is supposed to do so. Ps shows me that cron is waiting for the death of a running child. The source shows that wait(2) is never interrupted by alarm(2) because SIGALRM is set to SIG_IGN. The uuencoded cdiff below fixes this and also prevent a core dump on MINIX ST if there is no /usr/adm/cronlog. table !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>? @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_ begin 644 cron.cdif.Z M'YV-*@*"&"/GC1L78UR\D9,FP94R9$ 8*2,&A P8(&+DT!%#A@X:-S+FR!%#z M08N3 PL>'.,0HD2*%C%JY#B#(PZ1)!4$W,FSIPJ= F7,8#$C!@B>"D H59$@y M09$P8]" *..&CIP\(-+,&8BFS)@U+M.X 4&GCAPW+$"$<1-Q+5:J5K&V"4,Gx MJM@S9+LF7=ITC%DY<,FF:5,FZ]8R>+S6H0/1A5(J7:=6O7H4Q-RZ7;>ZI8/Fw MKHN]1Q6$6 K"2ADY<](8U)$@AHL;"6#$> '#QHNPGL+8v M#E404AQ/"=,&SAR#:8T CFAG+8@E99I333ME<)LZ; I3,>OF-&@5+_:.$#N&u M31TRA7G,R3/G!9T\<,K,<8'&AWKV[L$'@GSTO3 ''73QY]])+5@T5%$@,-C"t M>4T]%95D<1G&E5=@12066>2EM59;;KPUF5QTV>4&7IR506$"?LD!6%6"$:8As M8HHQ1H9C($!6&%R4\7995/JI52)GGITG&FFFH:::&ZRYAD-L,KQPT6TE[;9Dr M9;YQ%MQPQ1V7' C+-?<<6A)-!T)U8V&G'9K=M?%=>#V2=UI:4H3!AAD@/.3&q M&N>EI]1Z;K3W7GSSU7=??OOU]U^A 2):X($).NK3I0$!Q9L,,=# JJJF#.7Q: T9(*06:K+P- 1A=A84! AMOG&%&m M&N'Q^(1QW I=>N8J')TT$^XR:!$--?A+PZHGO=KXh MK" 87 ;":BW<\. B*S7Q:1:G@7&+(&Q<1L=O?!SRR .G<;+AD[L,L\PT$YTSg M"#OW_'/0E)N?]^U,+YF RN&_3!4*(KP GQTON $>&R+0&<_XICBRN0UN[VOKTE3BEI6AS?978YV*=AMK/4=+Cc MM"8^D0THF$(2CG!$)7)GCE^8HQ/&)L4(_DU/X6I#V/@(@KTD@'BUNE6N.K.Bb MEBTD>7?H3'C2E%z MBWMM/.,;XSC'.C8A+B@A)29:!y /DI9, 2;9N4FN0.R35.$>x w end -- -- Ralf Wenk -- ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com