Matthias
  I will have to try the ktrace option. I have some extra background info
about the problem . After a reboot or manually restarting crond from
/etc/rc.d/cron it seems to crash around 5 to 10 days later. I can see
this in log files that did not rotate correctly. There is nothing noted
in either /var/log/cron or /var/log/messages when I restart   crond .
Any idea how much storage I will need for the ktrace ?


Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 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
>
]Mark Saad[
mark@bad-apples.org