From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 15: 7:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E222515033 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:07:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA53209; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:11:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <200001152311.SAA53209@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: is this a bug? In-Reply-To: from Evren Yurtesen at "Jan 15, 2000 07:30:54 pm" To: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr (Evren Yurtesen) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:11:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evren Yurtesen wrote, > Hello > I got these messages in my /var/log/messages file > > Jan 15 18:58:01 dc su: rtprio 'root' (root): Invalid argument > Jan 15 18:58:27 dc init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault > Jan 15 18:58:57 dc init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault > Jan 15 19:00:00 dc CRON[66566]: rtprio 'root' (daemon): Invalid argument > Jan 15 19:00:00 dc CRON[66567]: rtprio 'root' (daemon): Invalid argument > Jan 15 19:00:27 dc init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault > Jan 15 19:00:57 dc init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault > Jan 15 19:05:00 dc CRON[66584]: rtprio 'root' (daemon): Invalid argument > Jan 15 19:05:27 dc init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault > Jan 15 19:05:57 dc init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault > > I could not understand what is the problem but it appeared to repeat > every 5 minutes. Every time that atrun(8) is started in /etc/crontab? Coincidence? :) > Then I sent a HUP signal to cron but it did not help. At last I decided > to KILL the cron daemon and when I sent KILL signal everything returned > back to normal. I did not get any more error messages even after 15 > minutes. but then when I started cron again they started to repaeat every 5 > minutes. I am using the standart crontab file distributed with FreeBSD When you stopped cron(8), it stopped running atrun(8) every five minutes. > any ideas? Somebody's crontab or /etc/crontab have some messed up entries? Not sure, never seen a message like those before. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message