Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:05:50 +0200 From: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl> To: Phil Brennan <phil.brennan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron stops silently Message-ID: <20050527130550.GA43864@dragon.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <ff0f76e0050527035045f3da29@mail.gmail.com> References: <ff0f76e0050527035045f3da29@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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