Re: Cron fails to run

["David" <debian-user@startupanywhere.org>]

Colin,

One machine has no nfs mounts (all local) and the other has a small nfs
mount which shouldn't be a problem.

I can manually execute run-parts on the cron.daily directory and it
completes no problems.  There must be some deeper problem with cron
itself.

I welcome and and all ideas.

Thanks,
David

Colin Watson said:
> 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?
>
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> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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