From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 20:30:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA09210 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 20:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (root@cisigw.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.2.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09205 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 20:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA14557; Mon, 13 May 1996 00:30:04 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199605130330.AAA14557@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: /etc/daily crashing my 2.1.0 system To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 00:30:04 -0300 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@iqm.unicamp.br In-Reply-To: <199605130123.VAA09397@shell.monmouth.com> from Bill/Carolyn Pechter at "May 12, 96 09:23:41 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL14 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Bill/Carolyn Pechter) // > // > Hi, // > // > My system (2.1.0R) is crashing EVERYDAY at 2:00. It seens to be a problem // > with the daily script. Searching www.freebsd.org for old messages related // > to this problem I've confirmed that it's a bug in 2.1.0R, but I could not // > find a solution other than removing /etc/daily from the crontab. Is there // > a better solution or a patch ? // > // > Jonny // // Take a look and see if you have the same thing in both /etc/crontabs // and /var/cron/tabs/root -- if both are calling /etc/daily /etc/weekly // and /etc/monthly -- you may have the same problem that caused my // freeing free vnode problem. // // Remove 'em from one of the crontab files and all gets better. Uh ? Both /var/cron/tabs/* and /etc/crontabs are executed ?!? Is this a new feature ? I'll try that. Thanks a lot. BTW: This is a workaround, not a solution, right ? Running 2 copies of the same program should never crash a stable system... // (should this be in a FAQ?) P'p'p'p'p'p'please.... >=^) Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@coe.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro