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From: ppgbms!moe!paul@philabs.philips.com (Paul Evan Matz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: New cron problem
Keywords: Software
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Date: 8 May 89 15:11:02 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 275, message 6 of 25

In article <55826@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> galvin-peter@cs.yale.edu writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 244, message 7 of 10
>
>... but I have a theory that the
>Daylight Savings Time change caused cron to stop correctly processing the
>crontab files.

We got pounded by that one too.  The hourly jobs stopped working.  Those
running once a day, and not at 2 am., seemed to keep on ticking.  Pretty
scary.  Did anybody submit this as a bug report?

	Regards,

	Paul Matz
	PPG Biomedical Systems
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	Pleasantville, NY. 10570
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