Re: cron is dying...
>The upgrade should solve your problem. The actual problem is
>that if syslogd restarts, the syslog(3) call no longer works
>for those processes that have used logopen(), because syslogd
>is no longer listening on the other end of the pipe; instead,
>SIGPIPE is generated. The temporary fix for cron was to catch
>the SIGPIPE and re-open the pipe. The real fix would
>be for syslog(3) catch the SIGPIPE and DTRT.
Well I upgraded and cron died overnight... <sigh> hopefully it was a
breaking in problem and it will settle in now.
>BTW, if you're upgrading, -36.1 should be fine, but if you deleted
>and re-installed, you'll need to check that the rc.d links got
>installed correctly. If not, you can reset them with
Ooh, nasty :) I upgraded so it didn't catch me. Thanks though.
Adam
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