> 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? You might try testing the files in /etc/cron* (more than one dir) one at a time. see which one dumps. I guessing you didn't see anything in messages or syslog? David
