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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:15:26 GMT
From:      Sergey Chumakov <postmaster@alkar.net>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/119524: cron suddenly stops working, not crash
Message-ID:  <200801101015.m0AAFQsY003862@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200801101020.m0AAK0nj032827@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         119524
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       cron suddenly stops working, not crash
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 10 10:20:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sergey Chumakov
>Release:        6.3-RC1
>Organization:
Optima Telecom ISP
>Environment:
FreeBSD mail.alkar.net 6.3-RC1 FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 #0: Thu Dec 13 15:41:55 EET 2007     root@mail.alkar.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAIL1  i386
>Description:
cron suddenly stops, it prints nothing to log and does no jobs. It didn't crash.

We didn't change any config files or so, it stopped (went to sleep) at early morning (we have last record in "cron" log at 05:33 AM).
Noting strange is in "messages" log around that time. There is no other system problems except cron. Since upgrade the problem has happened only once.

Running "/etc/rc.d/cron restart" helps.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
restart cron

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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