Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 12:35:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge crontab jobs are not run. Message-ID: <20000102123558.X1528@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000101232921.00abfcf0@netcore.home> References: <3.0.6.32.20000101232921.00abfcf0@netcore.home>
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On Saturday, 1 January 2000 at 23:29:21 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: > Hello all, > > I noticed that *huge* crontab entries in /etc/crontab aren't run on my > 3.4-STABLE (the same in 3.2-REL). > > E.g. > ----- > 1 0 * * 1 root /usr/local/sbin/logrotate > ----- > > Will not be run. Logrotate does some really heavy httpd log checking and > resolving - Like 1-2 hours job on a P3/500. Replacing > /usr/local/sbin/logrotate with some neat little script seems to be run nicely. > Also, 'touch /etc/crontab' doesn't help any. Running the script manually > works fine. > > Is there something I'm missing here? Well, I'd guess you're looking in the wrong place. This has nothing to do with cron. > Are there some kind of timeouts for crontab scripts? No. I currently have a cron job running which was started at 2 am; it got delayed for some reason. That's been over 10½ hours. > Any ideas? Look at the script. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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