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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:00:05 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: /etc/localtime and screensaver?
Message-ID:  <199603290900.KAA29740@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603282234.JAA17796@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 29, 96 09:04:26 am

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As Michael Smith wrote:

> > That's why one should normally kill cron before changing the time, and
> > restart it then.
> 
> I must say that I was of the impression that the Vixie cron we're using was
> smart enough to deal with that sort of thing - certainly I've never
> had any problems with it getting upset...

How should it do it?  It has to adapt to the new time.

I've seen it falling over already.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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