Re: Cron fails to run

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:12:33PM -0400, David wrote:
> I have two machines with Debian on them.  One is pure stable and the other
> is mostly testing.
> 
> Neither machine can successfully run cron.daily.  Unlike a previous
> poster, anacron is not installed.  Various tasks are started but never
> complete as shown in the following ps ax listing for cron tasks from the
> "stable" machine:
> 
>  6417 ?        S      0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
>  6418 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh -c test -e /usr/sbin/anacron ||
> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
>  6419 ?        S      0:00 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
>  6422 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/find
>  6423 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/updatedb --localuser=nobody

Perhaps updatedb is trying to read its way veeeeeeery sloooooowly
through something like an NFS mount?

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]