From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 13:37:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C82916A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 13:37:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phil.brennan@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F407443D1D for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 13:37:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phil.brennan@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 16so721121nzp for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 06:37:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cnskBs3fsDZg/6edSZQWWGKbNSozoxRChEo2FPov0tBePtbf/D4dlGevgc6gzUL8c2k0VFxExrbHLbrG85wIidMu8g24wrOMpcxF4Fr3HEfNyFjVxOY6nNcxzf0sa5yGEMgIN8xYpGxWsTOrnQ5pYuRfyzwK359gt/1OYfNNFQA= Received: by 10.36.34.18 with SMTP id h18mr979944nzh; Fri, 27 May 2005 06:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.100.20 with HTTP; Fri, 27 May 2005 06:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:31:04 +0000 From: Phil Brennan To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050527130550.GA43864@dragon.stack.nl> Subject: cron stops silently X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Phil Brennan List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:37:45 -0000 From: Phil Brennan Date: May 27, 2005 1:30 PM Subject: Re: cron stops silently To: Dean Strik On 5/27/05, Dean Strik 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