cron

[MARK LEVY]

cu>Orga: University of Maryland, Baltimore County


cu>At my home system, cron is acting weird (SCO 386 Xenix), cron seems
cu>to be activating once,ie my 'news' file in crontabs does not get
cu>executed but  the first time I boot.  Any ideas as how to fix this?
cu>Thanks

   I seem to recall hearing about this.  I believe that what you need
to do is to periodicly execute something.  If cron goes to sleep for 
more than an hour or so, I believe that it won't wake up.

Mark
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