unix-pc cron

[Gil Kloepfer Jr.]

In article <656613920 at macbeth.cs.duke.edu> pusateri at duke.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) writes:
>someone tell me what should be the file /etc/.cronstart ?

If you're running /etc/smgr, nothing.  Because smgr acts as "cron" also (it
services /usr/lib/crontab), no additional cron needs to be started.  If
you decide to remove /etc/smgr, then you will want to start /etc/cron, or
a public domain SysV.3-type cron.  You would then remove the /etc/smgr
from the line where it gets started (in a "for" loop I think) and place
the name of the cron to start in /etc/.cronstart.

Beware that the UNIX-pc /etc/cron does not do a setpgrp (2) call, and
thus gets owned by the window that started it.  Because of this, your
console getty will attach to w2 or w3.  This will break the phone
manager (if you use that).
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