Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:56:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Help Diagnosing cron Death Message-ID: <199901191456.JAA23972@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I came in this morning and when reading my email, I felt something was odd. After a few minutes I realized it was because I did not have my 'daily' and 'security' mail messages. It took me a while to realize it (I guess it was too obvious), but the reason I did not get them is that 'cron' died. Here is the message from /var/log/messages, Jan 18 11:23:00 newmail /kernel: pid 136 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 4 Nothing in /etc/crontab runs at that time, and there are no user crontabs in /var/cron/tabs. Here is the tail of /var/cron/log, Jan 18 10:40:00 newmail CRON[249]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Jan 18 10:45:00 newmail CRON[299]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Jan 18 10:50:00 newmail CRON[349]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Jan 18 10:55:00 newmail CRON[398]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Jan 18 11:00:00 newmail CRON[460]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Jan 18 11:00:00 newmail CRON[461]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/newsyslog) Jan 18 11:05:00 newmail CRON[518]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Jan 18 11:10:00 newmail CRON[565]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Jan 18 11:15:00 newmail CRON[626]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Jan 18 11:20:00 newmail CRON[675]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) A quick look at previos days at this time shows nothing. I check of 'last' shows I was the only one logged on at the time, and I obviously did not see this. Any ideas what it might be? Any help on how to track this down? I'm not an expert on interprocess communications, what is a signal 4 (a quick look at 'man signal,' 'man kill,' the cron src, and /usr/include/signal.h did not turn it up)? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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