From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 07:11:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13670 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13516 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA13065; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:11:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:11:26 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: cjclark@home.com cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Help Diagnosing cron Death In-Reply-To: <199901191456.JAA23972@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA13552 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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)? /usr/include/sys/signal.h contains the #define instructions for the signal numbers; signal 4 is caused by an illegal instruction. By default there should be a core dump cron.core of cron in / (?). Although cron is surely not compiled with `-g' one might get some useful information by using gdb. So I suggest something like: # gdb /usr/sbin/cron /cron.core (gdb) where (gdb) ... I don't know how much can be seen from that but you could try. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message