New cron problem

[galvin-peter at cs.yale.edu]

6 of 7 of our 3/280 server's crons stopped working yesterday, as far as we
could tell.  The symptom was that mail stopped being sent (we run a
mail-sweeper from cron).  The last mail messages to be sent seemed to have
been transfered early in the morning on April 2.  Killing all the crons
and restarting them solved the problem, but I have a theory that the
Daylight Savings Time change caused cron to stop correctly processing the
crontab files.  cron still showed up in a "ps" listing, so that isn't a
valid way to check.

Just thought I'd warn folks that there might be a problem with SunOS 4.0.1
cron since the time change.

					      --Peter

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