Tandy XENIX 3.01.02 cron sudden death

[abe at j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP]

In article <1337 at ncc.UUCP> lyndon at ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>I have seen this happen under CTIX as well. It happened on a very
>sporadic basis. No core dumps were found. The only evidence was a
>error return in the accounting logs when cron tried to fork at startup.

One thing to check here: some Bourne shells run out of table space
for &'d processes when executing /etc/rc and fail to start daemons
in an unpredictable fashion.  Inserting a few strategic "wait" calls
in rc can sometimes help.