Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:07:56 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: crons and syslogd not running Message-ID: <20081101020756.GA46968@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <fb6605670810311756k521cfc39re06bedebdfe5c9de@mail.gmail.com> References: <fb6605670810311756k521cfc39re06bedebdfe5c9de@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:56:33PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I upgraded from 5.5 to 6.3, and I've noticed that many of my cronjobs defined > in /etc/crontab don't seem to be running anymore. I have nightly jobs that > obviously aren't running, and /var/log/cron makes no mention of them. > > Looking for logs, I found syslogd down, although cron was up. > > Any idea of where I should look? Stability problems in syslogd? "dmesg" might show something like syslogd crashing or segfaulting for some reason. And no, I've never experienced any stability problems with syslogd on FreeBSD (any version; 2.2.8 through 7.1). Otherwise, I'd say the upgrade may have gone awry at one particular stage of your upgrade. If the problem doesn't recur, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Upgrading between major versions always seems to have quirks/risks. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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