tag 679106 moreinfo thanks > Apparently, cron doesn't clear the PID file once stopped, so > subsequent invokations of: > /etc/init.d/cron stop > continue to try killing a process of that PID.
For its stop argument, cron uses /lib/lsb/init-functions's killproc. I believe killproc should remove the pidfile if the processes is killed properly. I'm unable to reproduce the behaviour you are seeing. Maybe this is associated with your environment. In order to diagnose it, I would appreciate if you could run the following (as root) and send the output to this bug report (you can use 'script' to capture all the output to a file). Please ensure first that the cron daemon is started: ---------------------------------------------------------------- sh -x /etc/init.d/cron stop ls -la /var/run/cron* /etc/init.d/cron status sh -x /etc/init.d/cron stop ls -la /var/run/cron* /etc/init.d/cron status ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
