On Friday 16 April 2010 19:22:42 kashani wrote: > On 4/15/2010 1:20 AM, 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. > > Strange. I've never had a problem with it and Gentoo though I use Gentoo > primarily as a server. > > kashani
+1 I have been running Vixie's cron for a good few years on 4 different machines (3 different arches) and have not noticed any problems. On the other hand I am only running some basic cron jobs (e.g. , updatedb, mrtg). Have you looked at /root/dead.letter in case there is a problem that is captured there (although I would expect to see something in the logs to be honest)? -- Regards, Mick
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