pusateri@duke.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) (10/22/90)
I am using 3.51m on the att 3b1 (unix-pc) and I was wondering if someone tell me what should be the file /etc/.cronstart ? I noticed that this file is looked for in /etc/rc though I'm not sure what its contents should be if you want to start cron. Thanks for any info Tom Pusateri Duke University
gil@limbic.ssdl.com (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) (10/25/90)
In article <656613920@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> pusateri@duke.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) writes: >someone tell me what should be the file /etc/.cronstart ? If you're running /etc/smgr, nothing. Because smgr acts as "cron" also (it services /usr/lib/crontab), no additional cron needs to be started. If you decide to remove /etc/smgr, then you will want to start /etc/cron, or a public domain SysV.3-type cron. You would then remove the /etc/smgr from the line where it gets started (in a "for" loop I think) and place the name of the cron to start in /etc/.cronstart. Beware that the UNIX-pc /etc/cron does not do a setpgrp (2) call, and thus gets owned by the window that started it. Because of this, your console getty will attach to w2 or w3. This will break the phone manager (if you use that). -- Gil Kloepfer, Jr. gil@limbic.ssdl.com ...!ames!limbic!gil Southwest Systems Development Labs (Div of ICUS) Houston, Texas