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Article #12185New cron problem
From: galvin-peter
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 04:07
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 04:07
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6 of 7 of our 3/280 server's crons stopped working yesterday, as far as we could tell. The symptom was that mail stopped being sent (we run a mail-sweeper from cron). The last mail messages to be sent seemed to have been transfered early in the morning on April 2. Killing all the crons and restarting them solved the problem, but I have a theory that the Daylight Savings Time change caused cron to stop correctly processing the crontab files. cron still showed up in a "ps" listing, so that isn't a valid way to check. Just thought I'd warn folks that there might be a problem with SunOS 4.0.1 cron since the time change. --Peter Peter Baer Galvin (203)432-1254 Senior Systems Programmer, Yale Univ. C.S. galvin-peter@cs.yale.edu 51 Prospect St, P.O.Box 2158, Yale Station ucbvax!decvax!yale!galvin-peter New Haven, Ct 06457 galvin-peter@yalecs.bitnet
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: galvin-peter@cs.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: New cron problem Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <55826@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 89 04:07:18 GMT References: <8903211503.aa06110@kukini.CompSci.Bristol.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 4 Apr 89 15:51:40 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 244, message 7 of 10