Cron runs out of control

[David Harrison <david.harrison@sensorynetworks.com>]

Hi all,

I've got a Debian sarge machine, and while I've gone through and removed
pretty much everything from :

/etc/crontab
/etc/cron.*
/var/spool/cron/*

if I give cron even a single small job to run, it goes crazy and chews
up all the CPU cycles (and also doesn't respond to being stopped via the
init script - I have to kill it to get rid of it).

I've tried attaching strace to cron, but nothing useful came of it.

Has anyone seen this behaviour before ?

Cheers
Dave