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Subject: Re: crontab hanging won't die on SIGTERM in jail
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:24:16 -0000
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Stef Walter wrote:
> Michael Scheidell wrote:
>> anyone having problems during an in jail shutdown with crontab hanging?
>> I have seen this in 6.4 and 7.1, on i386 and amd64.
>> I don't remember problems with 6.3
> 
> I see this same problem in certain jails. A jail that has this problem
> does it consistently, jails without the problem (on the same machine,
> same FreeBSD userland/kernel) don't have the problem consistently.

Turns out (for me) the bug was in jailutils, and occurred when the jail
had been restarted from inside the jail using the jkill (or
appropriately configured reboot) command.

I've released a new version of jailutils (1.6) that fixes this problem.

Cheers,

Stef