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Repeating cron jobs after network outage
Sure you're not running a ypbind, connecting via tcpip to a remote host ? -
Repeating cron jobs after network outage
Is it not more like them cron jobs do get launched, but stay hung when that link goes down, and then all complete at the same time ? Look at either NFS, as suggested before, or having a YP client set to a server on the other side of the link. Cheers -
Cleaning wtmp
Here's what we're using here : # Keep the last 100 entries in /var/adm/wtmp in order to keep # it a good size particularly on batch servers since it grows # quite fast on them. /usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp < /var/adm/wtmp > /tmp/dummy.file$$ tail -100 /tmp/dummy.file$$ | /usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp -ic >...
