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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Subject: Re: Help Diagnosing cron Death
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990119160500.13023A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> from Konrad Heuer at "Jan 19, 99 04:11:26 pm"
To: kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de (Konrad Heuer)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:44:49 -0500 (EST)
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Konrad Heuer wrote,
> 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.
_There_ they are. Thanks.
> 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.
I cannot seem to find a core dump. There definately is not one in
/. The following did not seem to turn anything up that looks like the
coredump,
% find / -name 'cron.core'
% find /etc /var /usr -ctime -1
Other ideas where it might be? If it exists...
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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