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Date:      Fri, 27 May 2005 16:04:43 +0200
From:      Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl>
To:        Phil Brennan <phil.brennan@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cron stops silently
Message-ID:  <20050527140443.GB43864@dragon.stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <ff0f76e0050527063153689bf7@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ff0f76e0050527035045f3da29@mail.gmail.com> <20050527130550.GA43864@dragon.stack.nl> <ff0f76e00505270630567d8d98@mail.gmail.com> <ff0f76e0050527063153689bf7@mail.gmail.com>

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Phil Brennan wrote:
> From: Phil Brennan <phil.brennan@gmail.com>
> Date: May 27, 2005 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: cron stops silently
> To: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl>
> 
> 
> On 5/27/05, Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl> wrote:
> > Phil Brennan wrote:
> > > Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've noticed a very strange
> > > problem with cron. [..]
> > 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
> 
> aha, I had a faint suspicion that was it.
> Yes, I'm using ldap, and I've just managed to reproduce the problem.
> I'm wondering if this has anything to do with nss_ldap, I haven't
> rebuilt it since moving from 5.2.1-Release to 5-STABLE.
> Did you do a fresh install or an upgrade?

In my case, it was an upgrade from RELENG_5_3 (original install) to
RELENG_5_4.

-- 
Dean C. Strik             Eindhoven University of Technology
dean@stack.nl  |  dean@ipnet6.org  |  http://www.ipnet6.org/
"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli



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