SUMMARY: Cron and multiple cron

From: Landkammer Jiøí <LandkammerJ_at_Radiomobil.cz>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 16:35:10 +0200

Hi

Many thanks to all for your response and suggestion. The best interesting
responses are below. The Compaq support center recommended installation the
patch BCGMC1ZNX.tar.

Thanks
Jirka


Mike D Cross [crossmd_at_mh.uk.sbphrd.com] wrote:
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Hi,

Its a known problem with cron. It appears that cron forks to start
a cron job, it runs a routine to become the user of the job to run.
If for any reason the users files disappear during this phase, cron
does not give an error - it just leaves the forked process running as
root and you see the problem you are

If you cann Compaq they should be able to send you a patched version
of CRON, which avoids the problem - however it does not explain the
root cause of the problem.

Mike

Alay Shah shahal_at_allegiance.net wrote:
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We had this problem on our site. Although I cannot recall exactly what the
problem was i.e Multiple cron processes or crontab firing up the same job
several times. However, we have a patch that fixed the problem on our site.
See
if you can call support and ask for this patch. This patch had the same fix
for
V4.0D, E and F.

BCGMC1ZNX.tar

Good Luck!
Received on Mon Jul 03 2000 - 14:37:12 NZST

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