On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:36:29PM -0400, Larry Linder wrote: > > Cron is now broken so you can't scehedule reliable backups. > This got broken in SL 6.9 worked in SL 6.5. > The reason is that it is looking for files from yum. Whot does yum have > to do with cron I heav yet to figure it out. >
Cannot confirm. cron works just fine here. by design, it can bog down if some cron jobs never complete. this can happen to cron jobs that run "yum update". is that what you see? easy to fix by removing offending cron jobs. > > My advise if you don't want to be forever the support team - buy a MAC. > a "+1" on this one. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
