Cron problems

[Ken Abrams]

In article <159 at ahmcs.com> alan at ahmcs.com (Alan Mintz) writes:
>> This is a well known problem with SCO Xenix 2.X cron.  It tends to "go to
>> sleep" if no jobs are scheduled for long periods of time.  SCOs recommended
>> fix is to add a cron job that executes /bin/true once a minute.
>
>This may be overkill. As I recall, once per hour is sufficient.
>-- 

Your recall is better than mine was!  I just looked and you are correct,
once an hour is the recommendation.  I also forgot to mention that this
will make a fat cron log (if it is enabled).  And my original post would
make it REAL fat.  Thanks for the correction.


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