On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Kevin McEnhill wrote: > The other problem I have is in updating cron. I downloaded > cron_3.0pl1-38.deb from ftp.debian.org and used 'dpkg --install'. Well dpkg > crashes with the following message. > > bash# dpkg --pending --configure > Setting up cron (3.0pl1-38) ... > /usr/sbin/cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 5014: Try > again
# kill 5014 (resume install mode in dselect) Just did it last night on two machines, each of which seem to have successfully survived a reboot later in the night. --Pete _______________________________________________________________ Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
