From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 11:44:24 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 8690F37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13cXmX-000FM5-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:42:45 +0300 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:42:45 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Cron Problem Message-ID: <20000922214245.A58583@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <20000921121410.A25730@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921052553.00b46900@mail.megapathdsl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000921052553.00b46900@mail.megapathdsl.net>; from Allen Landsidel on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:29:52AM -0400 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: 9:40PM up 25 days, 10:31, 3 users, load averages: 0.29, 0.15, 0.10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Allen Landsidel : [000921 12:25]: #>At 12:14 09/21/2000 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: #>>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 #> #>Already, right there... #> #>You've got something opening up too many file descriptors.. keep in mind #>"file descriptors" on unix means not just any file, but anything that is #>accessed as a file. #> Still my cron won't run. As I mentioned, I really suspect the mergemaster that I ran after cvsup. If the periodics are not being run, does it not also mean that my cron could be dead? Or should I suspect anything else? Thanks -- 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 A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride -- for the opening or the shutting of a door. -Stendhal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message