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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Cron problems
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.184255.26348@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 23 Feb 91 18:42:55 GMT
References: <201798@hrc.UUCP> <973@pallas.athenanet.com>
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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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:
>>[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.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Drastic overkill!
Once a day will probably suffice, and once every six hours will certainly
suffice.

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341