Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:02:06 +0100 From: "Colin Brace" <cb@lim.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the daemon that won't die Message-ID: <aec9371b0803021402l2695c866ne843395de8878798@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0803021005u44cadb25o193fa18797ae32de@mail.gmail.com> References: <aec9371b0803020555o122de458x700b249a3e3352e4@mail.gmail.com> <14989d6e0803021005u44cadb25o193fa18797ae32de@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> wrote: > If you get an error from *cron* it means that greyscanner is executed > from cron itself. Christian, no, I am not running greyscanner via cron. However, there is this entry: # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot. */11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy which I have temporarily commented out. The thing is, in terminal, I see this: $ ps uax | grep greyscanner operator 84730 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 6:44PM 0:00.10 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 84999 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 6:55PM 0:00.10 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 85162 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:00PM 0:00.09 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 85436 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:11PM 0:00.09 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 85736 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:22PM 0:00.09 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 86024 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:33PM 0:00.08 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 86327 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:44PM 0:00.08 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 86610 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:55PM 0:00.07 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 86772 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:00PM 0:00.07 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 87066 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:11PM 0:00.07 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 87377 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:22PM 0:00.06 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 87666 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:33PM 0:00.06 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 88051 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:44PM 0:00.06 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 88358 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:55PM 0:00.05 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 88521 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:00PM 0:00.05 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 88833 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:11PM 0:00.05 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 89175 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:22PM 0:00.04 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 89479 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:33PM 0:00.04 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 89807 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:44PM 0:00.03 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 90127 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:55PM 0:00.03 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 90291 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:00PM 0:00.03 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 90604 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:11PM 0:00.02 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 90946 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:22PM 0:00.02 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 91265 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:33PM 0:00.02 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) operator 91619 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:44PM 0:00.01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8) I can't figure out what the heck is going on; what the connection is between the greyscanner script and the cron errors. Note that the above is happening every eleven minutes, just like the "save-entropy" cron entry. Thanks. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl
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