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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Cron mysteriously stops cronning.
Message-ID: <9802@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 19:05:05 GMT
References: <660@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <660@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>The machine is a standard 386 running SCO 2.3.1.  The cron task has
>functioned normally since installing 2.3.1 (in fact, since the first
>installation of 2.1.3 back in '86).  All-of-a-sudden, last Friday it
>stops running.

Seems that the cure for this is to give cron something to do more
frequently, such as:
	20 1,7,13,19 * * * /bin/true
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Jean-Pierre Radley		CIS: 72160,1341		jpr@jpradley.UUCP