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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:22:09 +0100
From:      "Bob Kersten" <bob@fellownet.org>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   crontab and mysql
Message-ID:  <001e01c1c942$d5f25ea0$0200000a@alpha>

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Hi,

    I've got two simple questions, at least, I hope they're simpel :-)

    My Crontab file seems to be corrupt. I keep on getting e-mail
messages for user root with the line "root: not found" in it. And it
does this with all the entries in the /etc/crontab file. It's the
crontab file for the user root (/etc/crontab). I've edited this file
and installed it with "crontab crontab" while logged in as root. As of
that point, all entries (even the ones i didn't alter) don't work
anymore. I've included my crontab file at the bottom of this message,
but I don't think you'll find errors in there. There must be something
else wrong, but what?

    Second question, my MySQL is extremely slow. I'm running FreeBSD
4.5-Stable on a Pentium-90Mhz with 64 mb ram, so that ought to be
enough, i would think. But when the database grows (like 300 entries
with text) it takes a few seconds for my PHP pages to load. I've seen
MySQL running amazingly fast on a machine far less than mine and
databases much bigger than the ones i use. Phpmyadmin is also pretty
slow and takes over 5 seconds to just show a simple table overview.
All these tests are done on the localhost, so the internet connection
is not an issue here. What is wrong here?

    Some system related facts: i've compiled a custom kernel omitting
all the options I don't use or my machine don't have. Both PHP and
MySQL are custom build, as well as my Apache. Finally the crontab file
i use:

# /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.21.2.3 2000/12/08 10:56:07 obrien Exp
$
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
#
*/5     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/atrun
#
# rotate log files every hour, if necessary
0       *       *       *       *       root    newsyslog
#
# do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
1       3       *       *       *       root    periodic daily
15      4       *       *       6       root    periodic weekly
30      5       1       *       *       root    periodic monthly
#
# Maintenance on Fellownet MySQL database
#
30      *       *       *       *       bob     /usr/bin/perl
/www/maintenance.pl
#
# time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock,
# does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock.
# See adjkerntz(8) for details.
1,31    0-5     *       *       *       root    adjkerntz -a

Thnx in advance,
 Bob Kersten.



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