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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DCRON
Keywords: AmigaUUCP, DCRON
Message-ID: <7796.AA7796@heimat>
Date: 9 Apr 89 13:23:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <10676@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>, stan@teroach.phx.mcd.mot.com (Stan Fisher) writes:

>	Has anybody had any problem with the recent release of
>AmigaUUCP's DCRON?   I have my 2500 poll two different sites at
>different times through the day, and they almost always get polled
>1 hour and 1 minute after the time set in my 's:crontab' file.
>  	Other functions of my crontab like log file clean up etc.
>either don't get done at all or are done late.  Once in a while it
>will do the function at the correct time and other times it does them
>both at the correct time AND 1 hour,1 minute late, in other words twice 
>for the same cron entry.
>	I've tried several different ways of setting up the crontab,
>I've also tried it on the 68k side of the system in case it was an
>'020 problem.

  Sounds much like the results I had with Dcron. After trying to solve the
  problems I finally packed it in and went back to using AmigaCron included
  with Amiga UUCP/UseNet V0.40 - V0.42

  Sneakers

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