We use cron jobs on OS 8.6 - 9.2.2 with T3.53 and W* 4.3 and 4.4 (we used to use 3.0.2 too). They work most of the time. Occasionally, the jobs don't run and there is a "[Cron] Failed" message in the tango log. I've never been able to figure out why they fail sometimes, but when it happens it affects all cron jobs. Once they start to fail, it seems they will continue to fail until the machine is restarted. We restart our macs each night anyway, so the problem usually goes away the next night.
FWIW, 3.63 has been buggy for us. And if you use 3.62 on a volume larger than 2GB, tango logging doesn't work. 3.53 seems to be fine. Also, check that the crontab file has proper line breaks and an extra one at the end of the file. Do not use the taf that comes with tango to edit the crontab file, it messes things up for Macs. If you use BBEdit and save with Macintosh line breaks, it should work. - Jeff >I tried valiantly to get Cron working on an iMac running MacOS 8.6, >Web* 4.4, and Tango 3.63, without success. When I tried the SAME >cron file on Tango 2000 it worked fine. > >John > >On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 08:40 PM, ServerSmiths Tango Development wrote: > >>I know I setup something a couple of years ago using the CRON function and I >>"think" it worked okay. >> >>My question is >> >>is there anyone who can chime in that they are successfully using the CRON >>function on Webstar 3.0.2/sys8.6/T3.6.3 (plugin) or any other similar combo? >> >>I'd rather not spend a day building something that would depend on the CRON >>and then find out CRON is flaky. >> >>Thanks for any tips/info. >> >> >>Michael Heth >>Web Information Architect >> >> >>__________________S E R V E R S M I T H S__________________ >> >> http://www.serversmiths.com/ >> >> Technology Infrastructure Provider >> >> I N T E R N E T P R E S E N C E S O L U T I O N S >> >> | EWordSmith | LightningSite | Enigma.Engine | >> >> ________M A R I N C O U N T Y C A L I F O R N I A________ -- Jeff Bohmer VisionLink, Inc. _________________________________ 303.402.0170 www.visionlink.org _________________________________ People. Tools. Change. Community. ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
