apparent cron lockup

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In article <286 at berner.UUCP> richard at berner.UUCP (Richard Greenall) writes:
>
>I have been having a problem with the cron utility under XENIX 368
>version 2.3.1.  When cron is started , it will run for a while, and
>then apparently lock up, not running any more jobs until it
>is stopped, and then restarted again.
>
> [ deleted ]
>
>			richard greenall

I have heard that XENIX/386 cron must run *something* at least once every
six (or so) hours. Our /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root file contains:

0 0,6,12,18 * * * /bin/true >/dev/null 2>&1 

so force this to occur ... otherwise it dies as yours has. Matt.

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