Hi

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:50:00 -0700 (PDT), MorfiusX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a brand new installation. I'll check the logs to see if cron is
> dieing. From what I was reading though, cron doesn't get automatically

        i found that my cron is locking up from time to time...
after some search i found that sometimes freshclam locks up when updating
and the fcron doesnt continue until the process is killed

        As a workaround i edited the /etc/cron.hourly/freshclam and
do a killall /usr/bin/freshclam && sleep 10 before running the 
real freshclam - "/usr/bin/freshclam &"
i sent the process to background so it doesnt lock the fcron and i add
the full path so the killall will kill the real freshclam and not this
very same script, as it have the same name

        The endian people could add/fix this in their scripts as probably
this appends to more people.

> restarted. It' just funny how it goes in ~30min increments of
> working/not working. Also, this is a VMware install, but I've never had

        but i'm betting that your problem is a clock problem... the
exact time between holes point to it...

        virtual machines may have slower clocks than the real one 
because the way they use to account the time isnt stable in a virtual
machine... in a 2.6 kernel there is a workaround of using clock=PIT
or something like this (search the net)
        As the clock is slower, every time you run ntpdate in the cron
it will jump in time to correct the clock, creating holes in the graphs.
        Other way to fix this is to run ntpd, this way the daemon will
fix the clock in realtime and the jumps will stop while remaining with 
the correct clock.

        check it out
good luck
higuita
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