Subject: Cron weirdness after perl upgrade
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/19/2001 10:26:17
I'm hoping someone can give me a clue what I might have bollixed up 
on my recent perl upgrade...


I'm runing cricket on a NetBSD-1.4.2 machine, and I just upgraded
a bunch of packages on the system, most notably perl and its various
cruft.  Now, every time the cron jobs run (and run successfully, as
far as I can tell),  I get an email from cron which states:

> From: root@cricket.corp.equinix.com (Cron Daemon)                               
> To: cricket@cricket.corp.equinix.com                                      
> Subject: Cron <cricket@cricket> /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees
> +normal 2>&1 >/dev/null                           
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>     
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/usr/local/cricket>  
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/bin>    
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=cricket>      
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=cricket>
>                                                        
> Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.                    


...Needless to say, getting this mail every few minutes is quite
annoying.

Any suggestions how to track this problem down?  I've already tried
restarting cron, but it didn't help.  (not that I expected it to)

The jobs in question are perl scripts, as I mentioned.

Thanks,
+j
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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz