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Re: cron on Win9x works


I read it again, but I am not sure I understand it. The hack proposed 
by BB him/herself

rm -R -f /var/cron/tabs.sav
cp -R /var/cron/tabs /var/cron/tabs.sav
rm -R -f /var/cron/tabs
mv /var/cron/tabs.sav /var/cron/tabs

doesn't work here. Cron still skips tasks. I also tried touch'ing the   
tab file, but it didn't work either. Elusive.

Luciano ES
Santos, SP - Brasil

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Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> wrote in
news:Pine dot GSO dot 4 dot 44 dot 0304112049570 dot 26381-100000 at slinky dot cs dot nyu dot edu: 

> Please reread the message.  Cron doesn't detect changes to
> /var/cron/tabs, so you have to make sure the timestamp changes
> before cron will run new commands.
>      Igor


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