From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 13:05:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437A316A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 13:05:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dean@dragon.stack.nl) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E727843D49 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 13:05:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dean@dragon.stack.nl) Received: from dragon.stack.nl (dragon.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5011:207:e9ff:fe09:230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D8B1F1BC; Fri, 27 May 2005 15:05:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dragon.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 1600) id AE7465F15E; Fri, 27 May 2005 15:05:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:05:50 +0200 From: Dean Strik To: Phil Brennan Message-ID: <20050527130550.GA43864@dragon.stack.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: VIM Rulez! http://www.vim.org/ X-MUD: Outerspace - telnet://mud.stack.nl:3333 X-Really: Yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron stops silently X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:05:52 -0000 Phil Brennan wrote: > Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've noticed a very strange > problem with cron. > Sometimes it just decides to stop, for no apparent reason. It stops at > different times, it doesn't seem to be affected by any particular > cronjob. > There are no messages about this in any logfile, it just stops running > and I have to start it manually. Obviously this is a major PITA. Can > anyone help me to debug this problem further? I really don't know > where to look. Searches of all freebsd mailing lists have turned up > with nothing. I just filed PR 81555 about this. For me, it appears that cron(8) exits after a SIGPIPE when an LDAP-user does a crontab -e. Are you also using LDAP here? See also the PR (hasn't appeared on the website when I type this btw). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=81555 -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli