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Date:      Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:52:30 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Niklas Saers <niklasmls@saers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Abort Trap for cron-jobs in 5.3
Message-ID:  <20050315165230.GB98412@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050315171613.G58112@doriath.saers.com>
References:  <20050315131444.X11456@doriath.saers.com> <20050315171613.G58112@doriath.saers.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 15), Niklas Saers said:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Niklas Saers wrote:
> > I've got four servers that all have the same problem: when jobs get
> > started from Cron, they die after some time with an "Abort trap".
> > Jobs that are dying are:
> >
> > /usr/libexec/atrun >> /var/log/cron 2>&1 /usr/bin/nice -10 /usr/local/bin/zsh /root/bin/sendBarkMail.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > I also get this on virtually every shell-script that uses tar, leaving my
> > filesystem littered with bsdtar.core files.
> >
> > Running these jobs from the command prompt works fine. Any suggestions on
> > what may be causing them to die from cron? sendBarkMail.sh simply moves
> > mails from one folder to another periodically
>
> Note to self: ask the question. ;-)
> 
> What I'm wondering about is: what could be causing the Abort Trap's?
> 
> World and kernel are a recent RELENG_5_3 compiled like described in
> src/UPDATING.

What's the stack trace from one of those cores?

Also, try not redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null; you are
probably discarding a valuable error message.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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