>> On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:26:11 -0500,
>> "Chris Garrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
C> I've got a system on which cron keeps dying. Would it work to run cron
C> under supervise?
Probably, but I'd recommend fixing the root problem by replacing your
cron with something more robust. I had the same problem under
Solaris-2.5.1, and replaced the system cron with another version called
"dcron":
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/cron/dcron-2.3.3.tar.gz
As it turns out, something I did was causing cron to die periodically,
but I still like the new one better:
a. I can schedule jobs to run every 5 minutes starting 3 minutes after
the hour by using something like this in the "minutes" field: 3-58/5
b. I use accustamp, tailocal, and cyclog to handle all logging, so I
don't have to restart cron just to clean up log files.
c. It's written very cleanly, and it's smaller than Vixie-cron.
I had to add some code to make it work under Solaris. If anyone's
interested, let me know.
--
Karl Vogel
ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA
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