From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 07:45:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28950 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:45:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28934 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24180; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:44:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199901191544.KAA24180@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Help Diagnosing cron Death In-Reply-To: from Konrad Heuer at "Jan 19, 99 04:11:26 pm" To: kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de (Konrad Heuer) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:44:49 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Konrad Heuer wrote, > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Any ideas what it might be? Any help on how to track this down? I'm > > not an expert on interprocess communications, what is a signal 4 (a > > quick look at 'man signal,' 'man kill,' the cron src, and > > /usr/include/signal.h did not turn it up)? > > /usr/include/sys/signal.h contains the #define instructions for the signal > numbers; signal 4 is caused by an illegal instruction. _There_ they are. Thanks. > By default there > should be a core dump cron.core of cron in / (?). Although cron is surely > not compiled with `-g' one might get some useful information by using gdb. > So I suggest something like: > # gdb /usr/sbin/cron /cron.core > (gdb) where > (gdb) ... > I don't know how much can be seen from that but you could try. I cannot seem to find a core dump. There definately is not one in /. The following did not seem to turn anything up that looks like the coredump, % find / -name 'cron.core' % find /etc /var /usr -ctime -1 Other ideas where it might be? If it exists... -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message