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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cron
Message-ID: <7955@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 17 Mar 89 04:51:40 GMT
References: <5312@lynx.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <5312@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
>How does cron behave when the time is changed by a human or by a
>demon?  Does it do something clever (?)

SysV cron is seriously unclever about this.  For example when
daylight savings time ends it runs the 2AM jobs twice.  I had
some real problems due to some files being removed when they
shouldn't have.

Les Mikesell