Re: Bug in cronscript?
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:03:19AM +0200, j2 wrote:
> > The best I can do is suggest using strace (e.g. 'strace -o
> > /tmp/updatedb.trace updatedb ...') to try to track down why updatedb
> > isn't doing much.
>
> Sent to soon. Here is a strace of the script.
>
> cookiemonster:~# strace -o /tmp/updatedb.trace /etc/cron.daily/find
Oh, you mean that it fails when you run the script by hand too, not just
when it's run from cron? Interesting. I wonder if your /bin/sh is
something strange.
> fork() = 6057
[...]
> --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
Since you're stracing the shell script, you'll need to add the -f option
to strace to make sure it traces child processes.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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