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From: aryeh@eddie.MIT.EDU (Aryeh M. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: apparent cron lockup
Keywords: cron
Message-ID: <11014@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 3 Feb 89 15:26:50 GMT
References: <286@berner.UUCP> <246@lynpac.oz>
Reply-To: aryeh@eddie.MIT.EDU (Aryeh M. Weiss)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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The problem appears to be the fact that the cron distributed with SCO 386
is actually the old 8086 executable where int's are 16-bits..ts.
Therefore since days are 86400 seconds long, cron will fail if you
only try to run one thing once a day.  Putting in a dummy program to
run every hour cures the problem.  The.is never seems to come up since
people generally do run something via cron on an hourly basis.

This is clearly another inanity on the part of SCO for not having 
recompiled their utility.ies under the 386 compiler.

Of course without bugs in the system, what would we have to talk about?

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