From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 15:53:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25840 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:53:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25681 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA13499; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:52:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Joe McGuckin cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron job problems In-Reply-To: <199804262339.QAA07431@monk.via.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Joe McGuckin wrote: > > I have a perl script that runs every hour. It's in user 'joe' crontab. > > Lately the cron job has been failing: > > Out of memory! > > Now, this is a simple perl script that reads a couple of log files. > > When cron kicks off a job, does it run as 'joe' or as daemon? > > Do the /etc/login.conf values affect cron jobs ? Yes! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message