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- From: david@dynamix.com (David L. Jarvis)
- Subject: more cron problems
- Organization: SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
- Message-ID: <9207210859.AA05077@dynamix.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 8:59:00 EDT
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- A client of mine has been experiencing something very strange, and I think
- it's another cron bug. Their nightly backup starts running at arbitrary
- times, but only about once every 30-60 days. That is, their nightly backup
- *is* running each night, but about every 30-60 days the backup kicks in at
- odd times in the morning, like now for instance! The time is correct in
- BIOS/ROM, and Xenix [2.3.4] reports the time correctly. I have done the
- obvious, checked the crontab file, checked to make sure some user wasn't
- executing the backup script, reloaded cron from disk, tested cron with
- other jobs, seen my psychiatrist :-)
- What bothers me is we have hundreds of clients that have cron doing nightly
- backups, but only one exhibits (or, at least, only one *reports* to us)
- this problem. However, something that strikes me funny is that these are
- the only one of our clients that tends to leave the system running for very
- extended periods of time. Say, oh, 30-60 days :-)
- Curiouser and curiouser ... this starts to sound like the problem that Bill
- Davidsen reported (that we were able to duplicate here as well) ...
- could they be one in the same bug? How about one of you SCO guys giving us
- some info?
- Any ideas anyone?
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