Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?
On 8/26/2010 12:59 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: I'm running cron as a service. Twice this week this server has died and needed cold rebooting to get the system back. Questions - First, will cron as a service on a Windows 2003 R2, standard system cause this sort of behavior? No, that's an O/S issue (kernel or drivers). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?
- Original Message - From: Blaine Miller To: cygwin Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:59 | I'm running cron as a service. Twice this week this server has died and | needed cold rebooting to get the system back. | | Questions - First, will cron as a service on a Windows 2003 R2, standard | system cause this sort of behavior? This has never been reported, as far as I know. You run cron as yourself, if I remember correctly. This avoids various setuid issues. Except for that, cron is a plain vanilla program. | Second, if it does, how do I run cron to keep it from | doing this? | | A snippet of the errors I'm getting are: | | cron: unknown option -- D | usage: /usr/sbin/cron [-n] [-x [ext,sch,proc,pars,load,misc,test,bit]] | Where does the -D come from? That used to be an option in cron 3. It is now replaced by -n Without -n, cron will not remain under the control of cygrunsrv. | My crontable is: | | $ crontab -l | # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. | # (/tmp/crontab.yRr11boUdm installed on Thu Aug 19 14:17:23 2010) | # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie | Exp $) | 00 05 * * * /cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_vvm_mysql.sh | 00 05 * * * /cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_vvm_ora.sh | 00 05 * * * /cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_nab_vnnab.sh | 00 10 * * * /cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_nab_csnab.sh | 00 06 * * * /cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_dellsrv20.sh | 00 06 * * * /cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_directory.sh | 00 06 * * * /cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_perforce.sh | 00 06 * * 2 /cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_fileserv.sh | | | As you can see, I'm not passing any paramets to the cron daemon... Remember that PATH may not be the same under cron as under interactive bash. So find and other tools may use a Windows version. But that doesn't explain a crash. Pierre -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?
Hello, Larry, I'm getting this message in the Event Log for cron kicking off... The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2160: (Administrator) CMD (/cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_nab_csnab.sh). Does it mean anything? Thanks for your time and assistance... Blaine Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/26/2010 12:59 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: I'm running cron as a service. Twice this week this server has died and needed cold rebooting to get the system back. Questions - First, will cron as a service on a Windows 2003 R2, standard system cause this sort of behavior? No, that's an O/S issue (kernel or drivers). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?
Larry, I'm also getting the following message from the crontab in the Event Log The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( crontab ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: crontab: PID 1596: (Administrator) LIST (Administrator). This doesn't make sense to me either... Blaine Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/26/2010 12:59 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: I'm running cron as a service. Twice this week this server has died and needed cold rebooting to get the system back. Questions - First, will cron as a service on a Windows 2003 R2, standard system cause this sort of behavior? No, that's an O/S issue (kernel or drivers). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?
On 8/26/2010 1:37 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: Hello, Larry, I'm getting this message in the Event Log for cron kicking off... The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2160: (Administrator) CMD (/cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_nab_csnab.sh). Does it mean anything? That's an informational message only. _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Will cron runnnnig as a service cause the server to lock up?
Larry, Thanks, that's what I figured. Thanks for your continued assistance... Blaine Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/26/2010 1:37 PM, Blaine Miller wrote: Hello, Larry, I'm getting this message in the Event Log for cron kicking off... The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2160: (Administrator) CMD (/cygdrive/c/scripts/xfer_nab_csnab.sh). Does it mean anything? That's an informational message only. _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
