Xenix 2.2.2 cron/crontab not working
Ross Oliver
rosso at sco.COM
Tue Nov 1 07:12:28 AEST 1988
In article <219 at ISIDAPS5.UUCP> mike at ISIDAPS5.UUCP (Mike Maloney) writes:
=Has anyone else had problems getting the Xenix 2.2.2 (I'm running on
=a NEC Powermate 386) crontab to work? My situation is as follows:
=
=1. I loaded the following commands via the crontab command:
= 31 9 * * * echo "Doing expire..." | mail super
= 32 9 * * * (/usr/lib/news/expire -p; echo "expire done" | mail super)
=
=2. /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow does not exist.
=3. /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny exists but is empty.
=4. cron is indeed running. I see it on the 'ps'.
=
=At 9:31 AM every morning 'super' should get mail that says "Doing expire...".
=At 9:32 the expire program should run and then I get more mail. Right??
=I get nothing. I have to run expire by hand. Frequently the disk fills up
=on weekends.
We're still trying to track this one down. A workaround is to add the
following entry to your crontab file:
0 0,6,12,18 * * * /bin/true
Giving cron something to do at least every 6 hours seems to cure the problem.
Ross Oliver
Technical Support
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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