From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Dec 28 0:40: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5DF37B417 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBS8e4q85298; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:40:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112280840.fBS8e4q85298@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Crist J . Clark" Subject: Re: misc/33169: system freeze after cron daily security check Reply-To: "Crist J . Clark" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/33169; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Dziugas Baltrunas Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/33169: system freeze after cron daily security check Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:36:54 -0800 On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 06:12:07AM -0800, Dziugas Baltrunas wrote: [snip] > when there are a lot of directories in /var, a part of daily cron script, 450.status-security executes find command, which after 10 minutes freezes the system. > >How-To-Repeat: > try to "make" lot of files and directories in partition and to cron status-security. > >Fix: > haven't find yet. my solution was to disable status-security in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf First, lets narrow this down. Could you comment out everything from the line, echo 'Checking setuid files and devices:' To, # Show changes in the way filesystems are mounted Then run the security check. Does it work now? Just how many directories are in /var? Could you give us some more hints on how to reproduce the problem? -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message