Re: Changing Date Results in Cron Jobs not Running

From: Bela Lubkin (belal_at_sco.com)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:30:33 GMT
To: scomsc@xenitec.ca

Peter McGill wrote:

> When our company turns the year, they want me to reset the date back
> to Sep 30 each day until we have finished all accounting for that
> year. Stupid I know. (Our year is Oct 1 - Sep 30)
>
> My problem is this causes all backup and maintenance tasks scheduled
> not to run.

You can get them to run by restarting cron. To do this, as root, run:

  /etc/rc2.d/P75cron stop
  rm -f /usr/lib/cron/FIFO
  sd cron

Whether this is actually a good idea is up to you. It will rerun Sep 30
cron jobs. If you have a rotating backup schedule (doing full backups
some days and incrementals other days) it will do whatever it was
supposed to do on Sep 30, repeatedly. Depending on how your backup
procedure works, this could be no big deal or it could be disastrous.

>Bela<

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