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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] installs which hang
Date: Sun,  8 Jun 2014 00:21:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ffbd9557190ec716f5b3d79dd6fce8e@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6d892528d6a444bfab7f0d3f40c154f@brasstown.quanstro.net>

> - timesync.  i saw this issue one in 2008, so i don't remember much about it.

I think this was a bug in cron. When the time lept forward as timesync corrected
the time at boot cron would try to run all the intervening events and hang the machine.

cron now ignores time changes if they are big.

Having said this my memory is a little hazy too...

-Steve



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-07 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-07 15:45 erik quanstrom
2014-06-07 17:16 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-06-07 23:21 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2014-06-08  8:05   ` erik quanstrom

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