From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 2:16: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449B337B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13c2Qk-0007N0-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:14:10 +0300 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:14:10 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Cron Problem Message-ID: <20000921121410.A25730@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 12:09PM up 24 days, 59 mins, 9 users, load averages: 1.78, 1.70, 1.56 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG can anyone kindly point me to any reason why cron seems to be asleep in my systems -4.1-STABLE? No periodic processes are being run. Here are the messages I got for last night. Sep 21 03:00:02 alouette squid[283]: storeDirClean: /usr/local/squid/cache/08/71 : (23) Too many open files in system Sep 21 03:00:07 alouette /kernel: pid 1801 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Sep 21 03:00:10 alouette /kernel: pid 1802 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Sep 21 03:31:02 alouette syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system Sep 21 03:31:02 alouette syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Sep 21 03:31:02 alouette syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Sep 21 03:31:02 alouette /kernel: file: table is full Sep 21 03:31:04 alouette last message repeated 8 times Sep 21 03:35:03 alouette /kernel: file: table is full Sep 21 03:40:04 alouette last message repeated 9 times Sep 21 03:40:07 alouette /kernel: pid 1844 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Sep 21 03:46:48 alouette /kernel: file: table is full -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 Never cut what you can untie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message