Niels, Matthew, I am still wrenching on this. These timeout errors occur to rarely to provoke it by running rss2email. I have restarted the server and wait for the 'timeout' what is caused by this rss2email. Then I try to trace it back by the timestamp of the cron log file.
They are not Python processes, these what I found relate to mailman (top shows the user 'mailman'). Python is not the culprit. There are these 'cron' as well as 'sh' processes open after the timeout. I think so and will wait and count these processes. I do not understand it fully myself, Niels. One question though. This is /var/log/cron: <snip> Apr 11 18:15:00 manul cron[1124]: (herbs) CMD START (/usr/pkg/bin/r2e run) </snip> The number in the square bracket[1124] is the PID of the cron instance, yes? Or the /bin/sh it opens? Just to be sure. I let you know after some further observation. Thanks! herb langhans On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:04:37PM +0200, Niels Dettenbach wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 11. April 2013, 13:20:58 schrieben Sie: > > Is there some easy way to make cron and sh show the pid it just has > > opened? So that I can invoke rss2email and know for sure on what > > occasion it keeps the process? With top I just get a list of some more > > 'crons' opened ... > hmm, > not shure if i understand you fully here (do you mean the PID of the > rss2email > procs?) - you might write a short wrapper shell script in between which > starts > rss2email and writes out the PIDs i.e. into a file. > > rss2email & > R2E_PID=$! > > echo $R2E_PID >> /some/file/with/rss2email.pids > > > Why not trying to get the rss2email error from the shell directly (i know > that > it may take some time / many starts to un into that error in practice...)? > Then you can see what / where it is hanging there... > > > hth a little > best regards, > > > Niels. > -- > --- > Niels Dettenbach > Syndicat IT & Internet > http://www.syndicat.com > PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc > --- > > > > -- sprachtraining langhans herbert langhans, warschau herbert.raimund[at]gmx.net herbert[at]langhans.com.pl http://www.langhans.com.pl +0048 603 341 441 | jabber:herbs | icq:414500866 | yahoo_im:herbert.raimund
