Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cron
Message-ID: <523@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 08:34:32 GMT
References: <11098@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <11098@brl-adm.ARPA> FRAZIER%AFGLSC.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU (S. W. FRAZIER) writes:
>
>	I have an AT&T 3B1 running SYSV rel 3.5.  I've recently
>noticed that cron is not being spawned when the system starts up.

The 3b1 spawns smgr (status manager), a replacement for cron which
also handles the updating of the status line at the top of the console
screen.  You don't need cron, as smgr handles all of cron's tasks, as
well as its own.

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