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From: breynolds@ucsd.edu (Bill Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: root crontab bug? (Undocumented find -mount option)
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Date: 4 Jun 91 18:40:00 GMT
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In article <2802@brchh104.bnr.ca> ray@kea.am.dsir.govt.nz (Ray Brownrigg) writes:
>
>  <Long discussion on bug in crontab distributed by sun deleted>
>
> A few questions:
> 1) Has anybody else seen the problems described above? - there did not
> seem to be any followups to the original message, and I had to scour the
> archives back to last December to find the above reference.
> 2) Are there other well known solutions to the "can't stat" annoyance?
> 3) Any other comments, undocumented features, etc.
> 
> Ray Brownrigg			ray@am.dsir.govt.nz

Yes, we have seen precisely this bug. We had no idea what was causing
our fileserver (sun 3/something SunOS4.03) to lock everybody out 
now and then. After reading this post, I checked roots mbox, and sure
enough, there were the "can't stat" mail messages from cron. Thanks
for the info - I don't think we would have ever put 2 + 2 together to
get this little tidbit.

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