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Date:      Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:11:26 +0100 (CET)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Help Diagnosing cron Death
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990119160500.13023A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <199901191456.JAA23972@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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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

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