Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:42:58 +0000 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Cron job errors Message-ID: <3873BAE2.F1DF6479@math.missouri.edu>
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A few days ago, my root account got a whole bunch of error messages like this: Message 5: From root Tue Dec 28 08:05:02 1999 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 08:05:02 -0600 (CST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron <root@stephen> /usr/libexec/atrun X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page. They were spaced five minutes apart. They stopped when I rebooted the machine (which I do regularly because I switch off the computer at night.) This has never happened since. Looking at the man page for atrun, it looks like it is supposed to be started every five minutes. For some reason the computer was in such a state that caused atrun to have this error message. I was using FreeBSD stable 3.4 rather recent. Just curious, that's all. It is no problem now. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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