On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:14:24AM -0000, nonesuch@bad-apples.org wrote:
>   I have been seeing a odd issue with cron on NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 . In a
> nutshell it crashes with out logging an error anywhere.

Did you check both "/var/log/cron" and "/var/logm/messages"?

> Has anyone seen this before ?

No, cron works stable for me on two 24/7 NetBSD-i386 4.0_BETA2 systemsm.

> Does anyone have any pointers.

You could try starting "cron" with "cd /dir/withs/lots/of/free/disk/space"
followed by "ktrace -i". That will tell you what cron did before it crashed.


> I am currently running
> 
>  4.0_BETA2 NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Aug 20 00:42:50 PDT 2007 
> builds@wb34:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/i386/200708190002Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> i386

I'm using self-built binaries from the 24th and 29th of July.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/