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Re: runaway crons



On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:50:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I hit my work system remotely this morning to check mail and got
> 
>    bash:  fork: resource temporarily unavailable
>
[SNIP]
> there too).  pstree showed a heck of a lot of cron jobs.  Found and
> killed the root cron process, then slaughtered the rest with:

Do any of your users have anything in their crontabs (look in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs)? Is there anything odd in /etc/cron*? Any
funny-looking entries in /var/log/syslog, /var/log/cron.log, or wherever
else cron logs to on your system?


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