Phil, On Fri, 27 May 2005, Phil Brennan wrote: > Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've noticed a very strange > problem with cron. > Sometimes it just decides to stop, for no apparent reason. It stops at > different times, it doesn't seem to be affected by any particular > cronjob. > There are no messages about this in any logfile, it just stops running > and I have to start it manually. Obviously this is a major PITA. Can > anyone help me to debug this problem further? I really don't know > where to look. Searches of all freebsd mailing lists have turned up > with nothing.
I've only got access to a FreeBSD 4.11 machine at the moment, but have you tried the -x debug flags listed under cron(8)? (4.11 doesn't have rcNG, so I can't tell you where it's started or whether you'll need to redirect output, but I'm sure a bit of diggin around will show you.) Cheers, David Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
