From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 2 22:02:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1075106566C for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:02:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from colin.brace@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACF88FC19 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:02:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from colin.brace@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so4283844fgg.35 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:02:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=p3d3TLRYh3TfOv6R9Jjv5Rfv5Uf3Czy9NDgDkilqugw=; b=E8HYRDAN5Pb4xymuxreeeIxhJV9IO8+6oteG/znrR9etT4sFGXWDZqv1PyYqJ1fqHYFa0JQxJdrRXvcafTQaEncqz511gku1tHP+TReg+Lx0kigp2+JgopqkXSDcLVEnO2swjDTlAV0afDGS2jNJ35aBFtunTIOAuqIlVPpdIfk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=FbkueD7BIg9ZxUno8LFB2SL1kQtTw87AyjGDQG8ECWgASm0J0NQa5e40n3TTYpiiAdXLxEdtVwfCjchfI/HmWjT5O0KoqTL5eZAN0SYZaPJB6pmX5j+v3DC/dYsrAFhkKiCLpdSGb2rGea8XAYgVxxe/fqAJ3SdF2MSThDNCg54= Received: by 10.82.121.15 with SMTP id t15mr26728677buc.32.1204495327006; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.108.2 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:02:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:02:06 +0100 From: "Colin Brace" Sender: colin.brace@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0803021005u44cadb25o193fa18797ae32de@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <14989d6e0803021005u44cadb25o193fa18797ae32de@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0ff72d6c2548ea61 Subject: Re: the daemon that won't die X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:02:09 -0000 On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Christian Walther 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