lock up with XENIX

[Bryan A. Woodruff]

In article <180 at mdi386.UUCP>, bruce at mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre) writes:
> I am running into a problem with a client, and want to know if anyone
> on the net may have a suggestion..
> 
> The problem is that at sporadic times, the system just locks up solid.
> There is no warning, the swap doesn't seem overloaded (6MB swap) and
> there is never any error messages in /usr/adm/messages.  Since this
> board can't expand beyond 4MB memory, and I can't upgrade them 'til
> next year, I can't add memory at this time.
> 

Cron will lock up, some bug with crontabs, etc.

To fix it enter this:

(file: /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root)

first line in this file should read:

1 * * * * /bin/true

This info came from tech support directly... Nice to know eh??

Bryan Woodruff

(...!uunet!quame!bryan) bryan at quame.uu.NET