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From: winans@sirius.mcs.anl.gov (John Winans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Coherent cron & sync bugs
Keywords: cron sync daemon
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Date: 8 Apr 91 15:12:58 GMT
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I have coherent 3.10 on an Epson Equity II+ with a Segate ST1144A (128MB IDE).

I've never heard anyone grumbling about the coherent cron and sync daemon 
processes.  So I begin to worry it is just me...

When I installed coherent last fall I noticed that the cron and sync daemon
processes were not running when I did ps commands.  So I looked into the
start-up scripts and found that they were supposedly being started and dumpped
into the background.  Hmmm...  They had to be terminating for some reason.

I tried starting them by hand too.  They would run, but not when backgrounded.
So after messin' for a while it looked like they would only work of stdout
went somewhere real.  So I redirected stdout to /dev/null and all is well
now.

Is this one only me???  I doubt it could be a hardware thing...

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! John Winans                     Advanced Computing Research Facility  !
! winans@mcs.anl.gov              Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois !
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