shared crontab and ND caching

[mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP]

In article <6437 at allegra.UUCP>, mp at allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) writes:
> As for ables at mcc-pp's question about cron not noticing changes in a
> shared crontab, I think the problem may be due to the caching in ND.

> [...] and periodically flushing the clients' disk caches should help.
> We've found "du /pub" - we have several thousand files in our /pub -
> and a couple "umount /pub"'s (umount will fail, of course, but it
> does what we want) usually flush the cache.

Doesn't `sync' work?  There's a syscall sync() to flush the buffer
cache, and there's a program /etc/sync which calls it.

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