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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
