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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!cfi.org!dogface!catburg.UUCP!not-for-mail From: boyd@catburg (Boyd Faulkner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: crond Date: 12 Nov 1993 09:30:41 -0600 Organization: CatBurg Lines: 31 Message-ID: <2c0a7fINNof@catburg.UUCP> References: <1693314.75139.7768@status.gen.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: catburg.uucp X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 craigw@status.gen.nz (Craig Whitmore,At Home ,649-292-4859,649-292-4859) writes: : I have been having troubles with crond. I add an entry into /var/cdron/tab/ : then I deleted it about 10 mins after, but crond was still running the : process when there was no entry in the dir for the process and the only way : I could get it to behave itself was to kill crond and start it up again : crond seems to add the entries in on whiel running, but doesn't delete : them :( : I'm running 386bsd (Don't tell me to go to another *bsd please), on a 486/50 : with 32 Megs of memory with all the latest patches. : : ______ : \/oo\/ : .---oOO-\/-OOo------------------------------------------------------------. : |Craig Whitmore - craigw@status.gen.nz - Status BBS | : | - craigw@mis.status.gen.nz - Midland Internet Services | : | - craigw@mserve.kiwi.gen.nz - Advanced Systems | : `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' : I have a different problem, my cron jobs never finish! but if I run them from the prompt, they do. the two in question are from inn, news.daily and send-uucp (if there is anything to send) Thanks, Boyd -- ============================================================================= || "Home is where the cats are" || || Boyd R. Faulkner || || boyd@catburg || =============================================================================