Cron and dying disk

1997-07-09 Thread David R. Kohel
Someone earlier mentioned a cron job being run at 7:00 AM, complaining about the heavy CPU/memory usage. I've found another complication. I had one new hard disk die just after installation. I was in the process of transferring my Slackware Linux filesystem over to it when the superblock

Re: Cron and dying disk

1997-07-09 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
David R. Kohel wrote, :Someone earlier mentioned a cron job being run at 7:00 AM, complaining :about the heavy CPU/memory usage. I've found another complication. :Does anyone have any suggestions on disk maintance, and how to keep a :flawed disk up? Is this truely a hardware problem? Your

Re: cron is dying...

1997-01-15 Thread Joey Hess
-36.1 and hopefully this will help. I had problems with cron dying, but one of the new versions fixed it. I'm using cron 3.0pl1-36.1 now, and cron hasn't died in months.. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -i\$q='$q',\$p='$p';eval\$q.\$\^I\n# # [EMAIL PROTECTED] $q='print$p$^I\n',$p='#!/usr/bin/perl -i';eval$q

Re: cron is dying...

1997-01-15 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) wrote: Hi, I know this has been dealt with before We're running cron 3.0pl1-32 on a debian 1.1 installation. Ocasionally cron dies which is rather annoying. [snip] I have just upgraded to the latest verion on the FTP site cron 3.0pl1-36.1

Re: cron is dying...

1997-01-15 Thread Adam Shand
The upgrade should solve your problem. The actual problem is that if syslogd restarts, the syslog(3) call no longer works for those processes that have used logopen(), because syslogd is no longer listening on the other end of the pipe; instead, SIGPIPE is generated. The temporary fix for cron was

cron is dying...

1997-01-14 Thread Adam Shand
Hi, I know this has been dealt with before We're running cron 3.0pl1-32 on a debian 1.1 installation. Ocasionally cron dies which is rather annoying. I seem to remember a couple people posting that a different version of cron fixes this (Dylan's cron maybe?). I have just upgraded to the