From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 15 22:19:35 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757E216A419 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:19:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3012C13C455 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:19:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBFMJUBN014486; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:19:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5SSPMVP20ehF; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:19:21 -0600 (CST) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBFMIbGs014464; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:18:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <476452B7.4050205@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:18:31 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rudy References: <4754C19E.5060708@monkeybrains.net> <4754CD5B.90605@daleco.biz> <4754DD17.6050701@monkeybrains.net> <20071204074444.GB12505@dan.emsphone.com> <476198EB.5010802@monkeybrains.net> <4761B4B4.8080100@daleco.biz> <4762FA39.50602@monkeybrains.net> <47630ED2.5090400@monkeybrains.net> In-Reply-To: <47630ED2.5090400@monkeybrains.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:19:35 -0000 Rudy wrote: >> The thing is, sometimes it runs fine, other times it backlogs (It may >> complete at a latter date... the PID 82253 is still waiting ... Gonna >> see it it completes instead of killing all the stuck crons...). >> > > All the crons are cleared out right now... 'ps' shows only crond. > Related to putting the other cron job in " marks??? > Well, I think I messed up in my suggestion, by omitting the CRON at the end. My point/thought was, put the entire command "/path/to/script.sh ARG" in quotes. Cron is pretty archaic, and I wondered if it was trying to run "/path/to/script.sh" and "ARG" as two jobs instead of one, and hanging on "ARG" since CRON is something of a reserved word. IANAE, YMMV, and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero