Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:31:04 +0000 From: Phil Brennan <phil.brennan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: cron stops silently Message-ID: <ff0f76e0050527063153689bf7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ff0f76e00505270630567d8d98@mail.gmail.com> References: <ff0f76e0050527035045f3da29@mail.gmail.com> <20050527130550.GA43864@dragon.stack.nl> <ff0f76e00505270630567d8d98@mail.gmail.com>
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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. > > Sometimes it just decides to stop, for no apparent reason. It stops at > > different times, it doesn't seem to be affected by any particular > > cronjob. > > There are no messages about this in any logfile, it just stops running > > and I have to start it manually. Obviously this is a major PITA. Can > > anyone help me to debug this problem further? I really don't know > > where to look. Searches of all freebsd mailing lists have turned up > > with nothing. > > 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=3D81555 > > -- > 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 > 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? Regards, Philip
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