From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 5 4:34:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279E437B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6405F43E3B for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from toad.stack.nl (toad.stack.nl [2001:610:1108:5010:202:b3ff:fe17:9e1a]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174FE3F8B; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:34:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by toad.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id E631E98D1; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:34:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:34:13 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: marcolz@stack.nl Subject: Re: /bin/sh, $MAIL and login.conf Message-ID: <20020705113413.GA57521@stack.nl> References: <20020705132210.A20062@ilse.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020705132210.A20062@ilse.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD toad.stack.nl 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If an NFS mounted filesystem is non-responsive, all crons > that use /bin/sh will keep hangig until the filesystem > responds. If the problem remains long enough, the machine > will simply run out of memory and/or processes because of all > the hanging /bin/sh's... This only happened when cron was started from a command prompt on FreeBSD 3 btw. cron empties the environment it pass through to its subprocesses. So perhaps I'll just have to fix my own cron-like programs to do the same... Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message