> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 9 Jun 1999 13:38:21 -0400
>
> >> 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
I don't need that, but cute nevertheless.
> 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.
So you're saying dcron works with djb's tools?
> c. It's written very cleanly, and it's smaller than Vixie-cron.
That's a plus.
I've been hoping not to modify the distribution too much since I have to
replicate it, but you're making a pretty good case. I'll take a look. Do you
know if it's been RPM'd?
Chris
--
Chris Garrigues virCIO
+1 512 432 4046 4314 Avenue C O-
http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ Austin, TX 78751-3709
+1 512 374 0500
My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an
explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html
Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft,
but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft.
PGP signature
