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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: apparent cron lockup
Message-ID: <13073@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 2 Feb 89 17:49:27 GMT
References: <286@berner.UUCP> <611@dms.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <611@dms.UUCP> morris@dms.UUCP (Jim Morris) writes:

| I did the following which "cured" the problem:
| put the following line in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root
| 
| 10 * * * * /bin/true

  Ah ha! No wonder I never saw the problem. My machines as heavy uucp
boxes and run uucico several time an hour to check for queued outgoing
mail. No wonder I haven't seen this.

  Thanks for the info!
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me