Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:50:19 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: is this a bug? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05.10001152039410.5324-100000@earth.wnm.net> In-Reply-To: <200001152311.SAA53209@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Evren Yurtesen wrote, > > Hello > > I got these messages in my /var/log/messages file > > > > Jan 15 18:58:01 dc su: rtprio 'root' (root): Invalid argument > > Jan 15 18:58:27 dc init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault > > Jan 15 18:58:57 dc init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault > > Jan 15 19:00:00 dc CRON[66566]: rtprio 'root' (daemon): Invalid argument > > Jan 15 19:00:00 dc CRON[66567]: rtprio 'root' (daemon): Invalid argument > > > > I could not understand what is the problem but it appeared to repeat > > every 5 minutes. > > Every time that atrun(8) is started in /etc/crontab? Coincidence? :) > No coincidence. That's the easy part. > > Then I sent a HUP signal to cron but it did not help. At last I decided > > to KILL the cron daemon and when I sent KILL signal everything returned > > back to normal. I did not get any more error messages even after 15 > > minutes. but then when I started cron again they started to repaeat every 5 > > minutes. I am using the standart crontab file distributed with FreeBSD > > When you stopped cron(8), it stopped running atrun(8) every five > minutes. > > > any ideas? > > Somebody's crontab or /etc/crontab have some messed up entries? Not > sure, never seen a message like those before. > I have, on 3.3-RC, but my memory of the incident is a bit vague. What *appeared* to solve it was deleting root's crontab. IIRC, it started happening after I edited /etc/crontab with a text editor, NOT crontab(1). Root did not have a crontab before that but it seems that one got added anyway, despite the fact that I didn't use crontab(1). It didn't make sense then and doesn't make sense now so don't ask me why. :) hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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