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Re: Crashes during daily cron job



On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0600, James Roberge wrote:
>
> Hey everyone.  I seem to be having a little problem on my debian system.  It
> seems that the system is crashing during the daily cron job.  But, it DOES
> NOT happen every day.
>
> Here is a snip from /var/log/syslog... note timestamps.
>
> Aug 12 06:23:01 lebeau /USR/SBIN/CRON[3163]: (mail) CMD (  if [ -x
> /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi)
> Aug 12 06:25:01 lebeau /USR/SBIN/CRON[3167]: (root) CMD (test -e
> /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily)
> Aug 12 18:21:32 lebeau syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.
> Aug 12 18:21:32 lebeau kernel: klogd 1.4.1#10, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
>
> I tried to locate which script that it was crashing on.  So... i did a
>
> run-parts --verbose /etc/cron.daily
>
> The first time i ran it, it went ok.... but the second time i ran it, it got
> as far as /etc/cron.daily/standard and then the host went down (locks right
> up, even the console is totally FROZEN.
>
> here is a list of my /etc/cron.daily
>
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          502 Jul  4 16:13 calendar*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          669 Mar  4 17:05 exim*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          277 Jun  1  2001 find*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           51 Apr 23 17:19 logrotate*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          708 Mar 14 19:48 man-db*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           86 Sep 27  2001 modutils*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          495 Nov 18  2001 netkit-inetd*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          383 Mar 13 15:57 samba*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2736 Oct  1  2001 standard*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1197 Jan  3  2002 sysklogd*
>
> Now, i dont know if it was standard or sysklogd, i am logging in remotely
> and it might have choked on sysklogd and crashed before it displayed it.
>
> I tried running standard and sysklogd by themselves, but it did not crash.
>
> Some more info that might help
>
> uname -a> Linux lebeau 2.4.19 #1 Mon Aug 5 00:28:12 CDT 2002 i586 unknown
>
> cat /etc/debian_version
> 3.0
>
> I am really at my wits end here, does anyone have any idea what is going on
> here?
>
> James Roberge
>


I am having similar problems with my server. Did you find out
at the end what was the problem? Hardware? Software?

Thanks,
  Attilio Cucchieri

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