> anacron gets stuck everyday while performing cron.daily jobs. A typical > process status (ps --forest output format) is: > 26121 ? 00:00:00 anacron > 27557 ? 00:00:00 \_ run-parts > 29302 ? 00:00:00 \_ logrotate <defunct> > > logrotate returns successfully when I run it manually and doesn't show > any problems. A side effect of the behavior above is that anacron > doesn't get to go through the rest of the cron.daily jobs, even after I > kill run-parts whenever I remember to do so (I have to do it daily :( ). > This causes, among other things, my syslog files to grow large unless I > manually run the sysklogd daily job. > > If I do not remember to kill run-parts, no daily job will ever run > again. anacron fails to start and complains about an already running > instance preventing it from starting.
Is logrotate finishing its job when run by run-parts? Does it get stuck on anything besides logrotate? What is the run-parts process doing when it's stuck? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
