Re: Bug#5268: cron dies nightly

[lists@lina.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels)]

Hi,

looks like 2 problems here.

1.) cron should ignore SIGPIPE for itself and its children
2.) syslog should be fixed :)

> Now, why is the pipe broken?  Because syslog is restarted nightly on
> our system as part of the automatic network configuration we have.  We
> have not changed this part of our network config for some time, so it
> would seem that this only became a problem with a later version of cron.
> We have removed this restart and hopefully cron will stop dying.

Have a  look in /var/log/daemon... do u get select: errors from syslogd?

Greetings
Bernd

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