Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:43:34 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey <beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron job errors Message-ID: <14451.58678.36541.414790@anarcat.dyndns.org> References: <3873BAE2.F1DF6479@math.missouri.edu>
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I also had this problem. It mainly occured when the box was under heavy load. In fact, any job that cron will attempt to start will cause such a mail to be sent. I had one for newsyslog, atrun and such. Restarting cron is a quick fix. I don't know more about it. --- Big Brother told Stephen Montgomery-Smith to write, at 21:42 of January 5: > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Si l'image donne l'illusion de savoir C'est que l'adage pretend que pour croire, L'important ne serait que de voir Lofofora To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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