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From: Alwyn Schoeman <alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>
To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
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Subject: Re: Cron job errors
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Hi,

I've got the same problem, not letting up though (:

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 09:42:58PM +0000, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> A few days ago, my root account got a whole bunch of error
> messages like this:
> 
> Message 5:
> >From root Tue Dec 28 08:05:02 1999
> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 08:05:02 -0600 (CST)
> From: root (Cron Daemon)
> To: root
> Subject: Cron <root@stephen> /usr/libexec/atrun
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> 
> CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page.
> 
> 
> They were spaced five minutes apart.  They stopped when I rebooted
> the machine (which I do regularly because I switch off the computer
> at night.)  This has never happened since.
> 
> Looking at the man page for atrun, it looks like it is supposed to
> be started every five minutes.  For some reason the computer was
> in such a state that caused atrun to have this error message.
> 
> I was using FreeBSD stable 3.4 rather recent.
> 
> Just curious, that's all.  It is no problem now.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith              stephen@math.missouri.edu
> 307 Math Science Building             stephen@showme.missouri.edu
> Department of Mathematics             stephen@missouri.edu
> University of Missouri-Columbia
> Columbia, MO 65211
> USA
> 
> Phone (573) 882 4540
> Fax   (573) 882 1869
> 
> http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen
> 
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