cron daemon periodically dies

From: Malcolm Dunnett <DUNNETT_at_mala.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:11:05 -0800 (PST)

I have a Tru64 4.0F system that the cron daemon periodically
dies on. When it goes away any active cron jobs get killed
and the following line is entered into /var/adm/cron/log:

  *** cron exiting on signal 15 *** pid = 18517 Thu Apr 12 04:20:17 2001

 I can see this is a SIGTERM, but I don't understand why it
is receiving one.

 We've been able to identify that it only happens when a
particular job is being run ( but not every time that job is
run - only occasionally ). The job that causes the daemon to
die is not running as root.

 What could cause this and (more importantly) what can I do
to prevent it.

  Thanks in advance.


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