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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Cron problems
Message-ID: <999@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 22:17:43 GMT
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In article <1991Feb23.184255.26348@jpradley.jpr.com> jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>>fix is to add a cron job that executes /bin/true once a minute.
>
>Drastic overkill!
Alas, you are right, I was wrong.

>Once a day will probably suffice, and once every six hours will certainly
>suffice.
>
Actually with Xenix 386, 2.2.3, every 6 hours is not enough.  I have had
cron go to sleep with idle spans as short as 3 hours.
The recommendation from SCO is once an HOUR.

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