Cron problems
Ken Abrams
kabra437 at pallas.athenanet.com
Wed Feb 27 09:12:36 AEST 1991
In article <159 at ahmcs.com> alan at ahmcs.com (Alan Mintz) writes:
>> 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.
>
>This may be overkill. As I recall, once per hour is sufficient.
>--
Your recall is better than mine was! I just looked and you are correct,
once an hour is the recommendation. I also forgot to mention that this
will make a fat cron log (if it is enabled). And my original post would
make it REAL fat. Thanks for the correction.
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