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On Friday 16 April 2010 19:22:42 kashani wrote: |
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> On 4/15/2010 1:20 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: |
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> >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly |
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> >> first time, not even on the archives. |
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> >> |
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> >> Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, |
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> >> but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just |
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> >> stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. |
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> >> |
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> >> I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping |
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> >> someone here has some good ideas :) |
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> >> |
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> >> thanks in advance |
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> >> |
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> >> Matt |
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> > |
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> > You probably don't want to hear this, but: |
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> > |
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> > vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's |
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> > weird behaviours. |
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> > |
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> > Use a different cron daemon. |
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> Strange. I've never had a problem with it and Gentoo though I use Gentoo |
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> primarily as a server. |
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> |
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> kashani |
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+1 |
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I have been running Vixie's cron for a good few years on 4 different machines |
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(3 different arches) and have not noticed any problems. On the other hand I |
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am only running some basic cron jobs (e.g. , updatedb, mrtg). |
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Have you looked at /root/dead.letter in case there is a problem that is |
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captured there (although I would expect to see something in the logs to be |
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honest)? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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