Xenix 2.2.2 cron/crontab not working

[Paul De Bra]

In article <778 at starfish.Convergent.COM> cdold at starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
>From article <219 at ISIDAPS5.UUCP>, by mike at ISIDAPS5.UUCP (Mike Maloney):
>> Has anyone else had problems getting the Xenix 2.2.2 (I'm running on
>> a NEC Powermate 386) crontab to work?  My situation is as follows:
>> [...]
>> 4. cron is indeed running.  I see it on the 'ps'.
>Perhaps you need to kill cron, and restart it.
>Certain versions of SysV stopped periodic readings of the crontab
>files in the interest of system performance.
>-- 

There is another very old bug (certainly present in System III already)
that sometimes a process which is swapped out while waiting for an alarm
never gets swapped in again. I know it may seem strange, but we really had
cron become ineffective that way on an old System III system. So you may
want to make sure cron is not swapped out. (in that case killing and restarting
helps too)

I haven't experienced it on my 286-Xenix system yet since it never swaps.
(i bought lots of memory when it was cheap)

Paul.
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