-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 May 2004 21:01, Jeremy Brown wrote: > Has anyone experienced strange behavior like this from the vixie-cron > packaged with Fedora? Or anyone know of a reason cron might be killed > by the OS? Check you memory usage... I and others have observed that slocate (run by cron) is somehow leaking monsterous amounts of memory. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100666 I have seen this on two machines at least (the others are up and down too often for it to accumilate noticeably), and now disable slocate in cron.daily. - -Andy - -- Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players http://warmcat.com/usbautocam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtPnwjKeDCxMJCTIRAkBKAJ4v82yUiB5bUb3ZV1h+CrUo8thdZgCfeAfJ k4NYfkDjxsF/kocPs3mlqe4= =QLDr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----