On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Noel Koethe wrote: > On Mon, 08 Okt 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > 16310 pts/2 S 0:00 \_ run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily/ > > > > 16388 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [man-db <defunct>] > > > > > > > > Every time different script, and if I run every script manually it is > > > > completed in a moment without problems! > > > > I have no idea what the problem is. > > > Maybe its a good idea to report this bug to the "debianutils" > > > package where run-parts belong to. > > > > No, that's wrong because run-parts is working fine, but mandb is the > > program which is hanging around in defunctional status. So this bug > > should be reported against mandb. But please look before into the > > cronjob in /etc/cron.daily that is calling mandb and try running the > > exact command manual to see if it works or if that one hangs too. > > :) No. The initial mail show many hanging jobs from cron.daily and > not always man.db. I tried all the cron.daily scripts many times > by hand and this never happened. > Sergey wrote now the same problems >(http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2001/debian-isp-200110/msg00078.html) > and I think this could be a run-parts problem.
seems that cron isn't reaping its children correctly. I noticed this problem on a machine that I had moved to woody from potato. Kill off cron, and the zombies go away. There was a cron update a few days ago that seems to have lessened the problem to a certain extent. It's still a pain, tho. =) Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
