On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post > > correctly first time, not even on the archives. > > > > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out > > why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) > > vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service > > just stops. > > > > I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping > > someone here has some good ideas :) > > > > thanks in advance > > > > Matt > > You probably don't want to hear this, but: > > vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with > it's weird behaviours. > > Use a different cron daemon.
Your advice is vague :) I use app-admin/syslog-ng and I wouldn't change, Alan you too can try it. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.33-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 10 17:35:50 CEST 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
