Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:34:13 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: marcolz@stack.nl Subject: Re: /bin/sh, $MAIL and login.conf Message-ID: <20020705113413.GA57521@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020705132210.A20062@ilse.nl> References: <20020705132210.A20062@ilse.nl>
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> If an NFS mounted filesystem is non-responsive, all crons > that use /bin/sh will keep hangig until the filesystem > responds. If the problem remains long enough, the machine > will simply run out of memory and/or processes because of all > the hanging /bin/sh's... This only happened when cron was started from a command prompt on FreeBSD 3 btw. cron empties the environment it pass through to its subprocesses. So perhaps I'll just have to fix my own cron-like programs to do the same... Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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