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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:46:39 -0600 (CST)
From:      Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
To:        karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger)
Cc:        toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 971208 and the nfs rollback didn't fix it...
Message-ID:  <199712101846.MAA26627@home.dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <19971210114226.23033@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Dec 10, 97 11:42:26 am"

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Ok... Well... I'm not sure if I should feel stupid or not, but...

Looking through /var/log/messages I noticed something... The system was
rebooting on exact 10 minute boundaries... every time... (i.e. at 10:30:01,
10:50:01, etc)


Lookking through /etc/crontab I found nothing. /var/cron/tabs showed me 5
users have 'botchk' in their tabs, to keep their eggdrops up.

I'm not sure which user's script is causing the problem, but removing them
all fixed it. What it looks like is happening, from cron's log, is that
after a reboot, the first time botchk runs, it restarts the bot... the
second time, it runs, the system crashes.

I can reproduce this every time...

Does anyone really feel the need to investigate this? I realize userland
programs should never crash the kernel, but... is this a big enough deal for
someone to want to investigate?

Kevin



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