RE: TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary
Yes, restarting crond would also work....
I have been working with windoze too long....
rebooting all the time is rubbing off.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walt Mankowski [mailto:waltman@netaxs.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 8:13 AM
> To: 'Debian Users'
> Subject: Re: TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:15:00AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just came across a point about Time and Date and CRON which
> could cause a
> > problem for those who are unaware.
> >
> > If you have CRON running and you set back the Date or Time
> backwards, CRON
> > will not run until at least the old time has been reached again.
> >
> > A quick reboot solves the problem.
>
> Wouldn't restarting crond also work?
>
> Walt
>
>
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