From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 14:04:44 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 AF8EA16A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:04:44 +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 5D71D43D4C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:04:44 +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 552DA1F021; Fri, 27 May 2005 16:04:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dragon.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 1600) id 216D45F15E; Fri, 27 May 2005 16:04:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:04:43 +0200 From: Dean Strik To: Phil Brennan Message-ID: <20050527140443.GB43864@dragon.stack.nl> References: <20050527130550.GA43864@dragon.stack.nl> 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 14:04:44 -0000 Phil Brennan wrote: > From: Phil Brennan > Date: May 27, 2005 1:30 PM > Subject: Re: cron stops silently > To: Dean Strik > > > On 5/27/05, Dean Strik wrote: > > Phil Brennan wrote: > > > Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've noticed a very strange > > > problem with cron. [..] > > 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 > > aha, I had a faint suspicion that was it. > Yes, I'm using ldap, and I've just managed to reproduce the problem. > I'm wondering if this has anything to do with nss_ldap, I haven't > rebuilt it since moving from 5.2.1-Release to 5-STABLE. > Did you do a fresh install or an upgrade? In my case, it was an upgrade from RELENG_5_3 (original install) to RELENG_5_4. -- 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