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From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix 2.2.2 cron/crontab not working
Message-ID: <778@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 88 04:11:37 GMT
References: <219@ISIDAPS5.UUCP>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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From article <219@ISIDAPS5.UUCP>, by mike@ISIDAPS5.UUCP (Mike Maloney):
> Has anyone else had problems getting the Xenix 2.2.2 (I'm running on
> a NEC Powermate 386) crontab to work?  My situation is as follows:
> [...]
> 4. cron is indeed running.  I see it on the 'ps'.
Perhaps you need to kill cron, and restart it.
Certain versions of SysV stopped periodic readings of the crontab
files in the interest of system performance.
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