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From: morris@dms.UUCP (Jim Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: apparent cron lockup
Message-ID: <611@dms.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 02:48:41 GMT
References: <286@berner.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Games Inc., Milpitas, CA
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From article <286@berner.UUCP>, by richard@berner.UUCP (Richard Greenall):
> 
> I have been having a problem with the cron utility under XENIX 368
> version 2.3.1.  When cron is started , it will run for a while, and
> then apparently lock up, not running any more jobs until it
> is stopped, and then restarted again.
> 
> Does anybody know what is happening, and whether it is something
> I am doing or this is an actual bug in cron?
> 

Yes, I have the same problem.
The cure appears to be to put a dummy entry that will make cron wake up
every hour. This was suggested to me by someone at SCO.

I did the following which "cured" the problem:
put the following line in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root

10 * * * * /bin/true


	thats it. I don't have a clue why it fixes the problem.

-- 
Jim Morris.         			 morris@dms.UUCP or weitek!dms!morris
           Atari Games Corporation, Sycamore Drive, Milpitas CA 95035.
       (Arcade Video Game Manufacturer, NOT Atari Corp. ST manufacturer).
 Any opinions expressed are probably my own, and not those of Atari Games Corp.