On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:18, David Jackson wrote: [we're trying to track down a bunch of CROND jobs which appear to dump core all at once.] > An other consideration is where (and why) the core is being dumped to. > If it's dumping to / ? I can't determine which cron job is causing the CROND malfunctions. Even 'ps -faxlwww' shows CROND with no arguments as the command. Now, I see by experiment that when 'crond' spawns a job, it forks a copy of itself called CROND which, in turn, runs the cron script as a child. If the child core dumps, does that result in another CROND process which dumps core? Or is the CROND process itself dumping core? -- Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
