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From: Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Vixiecron not working all the sudden
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:40:24
Message-Id: 200511181930.jAIJUK4l006340@robin.gentoo.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Vixiecron not working all the sudden by Daevid Vincent
1 Okay I'm beyond annoyed.
2
3 Every day at around 3:00AM is when cron stops working until I reset it
4 manually.
5
6 What actually causes the cron.daily stuff to run?! How can I disable it
7 temporarily??
8
9 /etc/crontab only removes some touched files it looks like
10
11 "You had me at EHLO" --E.Webb (10.04.05)
12
13 > -----Original Message-----
14 > From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@××××××.com]
15 > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:18 PM
16 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
17 > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Vixiecron not working all the sudden
18 >
19 > > -----Original Message-----
20 > > From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:buanzo@××××××××××.ar]
21 > > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:14 AM
22 > >
23 > > Daevid Vincent wrote:
24 > > > But I don't think that will slove it, as the date of the
25 > > file his Aug
26 > > > 11th... So that means it was running fine for several
27 > > months with the wrong
28 > > > perms...
29 > >
30 > > is it running? I mean, ps ax shows it?
31 >
32 > Yes, it is running.
33 >
34 > Is there supposed to be more than one running? I haven't done
35 > anything with
36 > the server since last night's post (when I restared vixiecron
37 > after killing
38 > all the processes manually)
39 >
40 > daevid ~ # ps ax | grep cron
41 > 13415 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
42 > 15019 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
43 > 15023 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/bash -c test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
44 > /usr/sbin/run-crons
45 > 15030 ? S 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/run-crons
46 > 26879 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/slocate
47 > 28850 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep cron
48 >
49 > My 'hourly email' script mailed me at 12:10, 1:10, 2:10 and
50 > 3:10 am and it's
51 > now noon and I've not received any others.
52 >
53 > I don't notice anything standing out in the logs...
54 >
55 > ipTeller.sh runs every 15 minutes and lets me know if my
56 > dynamic IP changed.
57 >
58 >
59 > crond # cat current | grep -v ipTeller | grep -v gate_news |
60 > grep -v 'test
61 > -x'
62 >
63 > Nov 16 00:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/ntp-client restart >
64 > /dev/null)
65 > Nov 16 00:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
66 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
67 > Nov 16 00:09:29 [cron] (root) CMD (/sbin/hwclock --systohc >
68 > /dev/null)
69 > Nov 16 00:10:01 [cron] (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
70 > - Last output repeated twice -
71 > Nov 16 01:00:02 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
72 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
73 > Nov 16 02:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
74 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
75 > - Last output repeated twice -
76 > - Last output repeated twice -
77 > Nov 16 03:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
78 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
79 > Nov 16 03:01:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
80 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily)
81 > Nov 16 03:27:01 [cron] (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
82 > /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip)
83 > - Last output repeated twice -
84 > - Last output repeated twice -
85 > Nov 16 04:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
86 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
87 > - Last output repeated twice -
88 > - Last output repeated twice -
89 > Nov 16 05:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
90 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
91 > Nov 16 06:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
92 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
93 > Nov 16 07:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
94 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
95 > Nov 16 08:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
96 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
97 > Nov 16 08:00:03 [cron] (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
98 > /usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs)
99 > - Last output repeated twice -
100 > - Last output repeated twice -
101 > Nov 16 09:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
102 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
103 > Nov 16 09:00:02 [cron] (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
104 > /usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled)
105 > - Last output repeated twice -
106 > Nov 16 10:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
107 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
108 > - Last output repeated twice -
109 > - Last output repeated twice -
110 > Nov 16 11:00:02 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
111 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
112 > Nov 16 12:00:02 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f
113 > /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
114 > Nov 16 12:00:02 [cron] (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
115 > /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests)
116 >
117 > "You had me at EHLO" --E.Webb (10.04.05)
118 >
119 >
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