Cron problems

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <973 at pallas.athenanet.com> kabra437 at pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) writes:
>In article <201798 at hrc.UUCP> dan at hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
>>[note: posted for a friend. -- dan]
>>
>>I am currently using an IBC XLA 80486 based system running SCO/IBC Xenix 2.3.2,
>>and am having problems with cron - it refuses to start each day's jobs 
>
>This is a well known problem with SCO Xenix 2.X cron.  It tends to "go to
>sleep" if no jobs are scheduled for long periods of time.  SCOs recommended
>fix is to add a cron job that executes /bin/true once a minute.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Drastic overkill!
Once a day will probably suffice, and once every six hours will certainly
suffice.

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr at jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341