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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: startup menu and changing the system time/date
Message-ID: <7237@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 16:45:54 GMT
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Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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In article <1273@toro.UUCP> nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs) writes:
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>In particular, I recommend that you do not do this while cron is running.
>
>However, I have reset the clock in multiuser mode with no ill effect
>once I killed cron.

We somewhat regularily (and probably unwisely, but that's beside the
point) fiddle with the system time in multiuser mode without touching
cron.

To the best of my knowledge, we've never had any trouble with this.
However, I suspect part of our safety comes from the fact that the
fiddling will happen during the day, we don't have that many cron
jobs scheduled, and I think almost all of them run at night....

-Joe
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