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- From: dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: cron misbehaving under 3.1.7 ?
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 00:41:46 GMT
- Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
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- In article <BywI8r.Aq6@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina) writes:
- >In article <723398235.3837@minster.york.ac.uk> dss@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >>Is there a known problem with 'cron' in AIX 3.1.7 ?
- >>What appears to be happening is that when a new entry is added to
- >>a crontab, and that crontab is installed using the 'crontab' command,
- >>the new entry is invoked at the next time specified in the entry,
- >>but then never again!
- >>
- >>Is there a fix for this?
- >
- >I've never seen this problem, but I have seen the problem that changes
- >to the cron table are not picked up. If you kill the cron process,
- >it will be respawned and re-read the table including any changes.
- >
- >*) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *)!(* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (*
- >Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- >joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu -or- 415/926-2846
- >Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
- >Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
-
- Actually this is a known problem. Way back last April we received a fix
- for it. I think that was v3.1.8. Give defect support a call and ask for
- it. One workaround until the patch shows up is to run a command in root's
- crontab (which isn't affected) to resubmit all crontabs each minute. This
- will make sure they all are working properly.
-
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