[comp.sys.apollo] Cron problem on 400t with SR10.2 BSD4.3

yman@fees.vut.edu.au (yauman NG) (02/01/91)

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>I am sure someone has posted this before. May be I have missed it.
>
>We have a network of 3500, 4500 and 400t running SR10.2 with BSD4.3
>as the primary environment.
>
>The cron daemon started from rc works correctly in the 3500 and 4500.
>The same cron would not run commands stored in either the crontab 
>or crontab.local if cron was started from rc.
>
>#kill -1 pid-of-cron
>
>does not seem to restart it. 
>The only way to get cron working seems to be  
>
>#kill -9 pid-of-cron
>#/etc/cron
>
>Any pointer as to how this may be fixed will be appreciated. Or is this a
>bug in the shell used by init?
>
				Yauman
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