Dead cron

From: Toomas Toomsalu <t.toomsalu_at_pro-eco.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:32:32 -0500

We have Alpha-2100 running DU 3.0

We are running DUMP backups nightly from cron.

If tape drive (EXABYTE-8505) has errors, like:

...

----- CAM STRING -----
                                        Error, exception, or abnormal
                                         _condition
----- CAM STRING -----

                                        MEDIUM ERROR - Nonrecoverable medium
                                         _error
----- ENT_SENSE_DATA -----

ERROR CODE x0070 CODE x70
SEGMENT x00
SENSE KEY x0003 MEDIUM ERR
INFO BYTE 3 x00
INFO BYTE 2 x00
...

It kills dump, scripts, calling each other and dump, and cron itself.

kiling cron is specially bad, because we have other cronjobs.

Is this a common problem and is there any fix in next DU releases?
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