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Subject: cron in -CURRENT sometimes fails to process cron jobs.
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>Number:         6004
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       cron in -CURRENT sometimes fails to process cron jobs.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 14 08:00:04 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Sun Jun 20 20:24:32 CDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jun 20 20:25:52 CDT 1999
>Originator:     Thomas Stromberg
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT
>Organization:
RTCI, Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD nineveh.angel.nu 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #2: Fri Mar 13 12:20:39 GMT 1998     null.angel@nineveh.angel.nu:/usr/src/sys/compile/nebuchadazzar  i386 

>Description:
When setting a cron job (via crontab -e), cron jobs would suddenly "stop" 
being executed. For instance:

*/1 * * * * /www/null.angel.nu/desktop/dumpme

worked for 4 hours, and then suddenly stopped. It was still processed by cron,
(as /var/cron/log would report every minute), but the job itself was never
executed. 

This also occured with this entry:

*/1 * * * * /usr/X11R6/bin/xwd -display localhost:0.0 -out /tmp/dump.xwd -silent -root; /usr/local/bin/convert -quality 50 /tmp/dump.xwd /tmp/dump.jpg;


>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Unfortunatly, the only way I could get the jobs to execute again were to kill -9 the cron, and start it again.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ghelmer 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jun 20 20:24:32 CDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
PR author could not be contacted for further diagnosis. 
>Unformatted:
