When our users try to set up cron jobs (using crontab -e), they seem to work fine, until the system reboots, at which point the cron jobs stop running. If the user re-edits their cronfile, the cron job will start working again. The problem is that cron is starting up before NIS is running. When cron starts, it looks at all the files in /usr/lib/cron/tabs (which is actually /var/at/tabs), and loops