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Date:      Sat, 01 Jan 2000 23:29:21 +0200
From:      Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Huge crontab jobs are not run.
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000101232921.00abfcf0@netcore.home>

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Hello all,

I noticed that *huge* crontab entries in /etc/crontab aren't run on my
3.4-STABLE (the same in 3.2-REL).

E.g.
-----
1       0       *       *       1       root    /usr/local/sbin/logrotate
-----

Will not be run. Logrotate does some really heavy httpd log checking and
resolving - Like 1-2 hours job on a P3/500.  Replacing
/usr/local/sbin/logrotate with some neat little script seems to be run nicely.
Also, 'touch /etc/crontab' doesn't help any.  Running the script manually
works fine.

Is there something I'm missing here?  Are there some kind of timeouts for
crontab scripts?  Any ideas?

TIA,

Pekka Savola			pekkas@netcore.fi
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