On Monday 29 September 2008, Matthias Haegele wrote:
>Gene Heskett schrieb:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> I fired off this script, named sa-update.cron, but which has been disabled
>> in the crontab since someone here said it was a waste of time, and now it
>> seems to be hung. Running it as root this time.
>
>Maybe you want to run sa-update -D or check your logs for hints why it
>may be hung ...
That turned out to be pure CRS. When I wrote that script, I had put a
sleep(rand(7200)) at the top in order to randomize the actual run time,
tryinjg to be good to the servers. My bad, give me the usual 30 lashes with
a wet noodle.
The logs are silent, and it ran very quickly when I killed the sleep.
--
Cheers, Gene
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