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From: alan@ahmcs.com (Alan Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Cron problems
Message-ID: <159@ahmcs.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 20:23:08 GMT
References: <201798@hrc.UUCP> <973@pallas.athenanet.com>
Organization: Micro-Quick Systems, Inc.
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In article <973@pallas.athenanet.com>, kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) writes:
> In article <201798@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
> >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.

This may be overkill. As I recall, once per hour is sufficient.
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