On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:44:12PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:01:05PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > > > There have been several reports of similar problems, most of which > > > appear to be associated with anacron, an occasional jobs schedular > > > similar to cron. > > > > > > I had the problem myself on two boxes. Apparently one or more of the > > > scripts in /etc/cron.daily was bugging out when run under anacron -- > > > though I have no clear understanding why this should be, as both anacron > > > and cron run "run-parts" with the same arguments. > > > > I have got the same problem since several days, anacron seems to be > > the trouble maker here too. > > > > Did anyone file a bug report? If not, I would do it, but better if > > someone has a better understanding of the real problem (and a > > workaround, maybe). > > Neither 'anacron' nor 'findutils' list any current bug reports which > match this symptom, according to the bug tracking system: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
Followup to self: The problem (hung anacron jobs leading to out-of-date whatis (locate) database) appears to result on my system from a hung logrotate process. This happens sporadically, not sure why. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/