Bug 11032

I noticed that all my scheduled jobs stopped working after upgrading my
gateway machine to RH61. As I only have a handful of non-critical jobs on
this machine, I've never worried about it too much.

Cron is running, and making log entries as expected, but when I check to
see that the job has been done - it hasn't. After restarting cron, it runs
each job once, then never again.

I upgraded to vixie-cron-3.0.1-40 (from 6.2), but nothing changed. Upgraded
again to vixie-cron-3.0.1-42 (Rawhide), and still it's broken.

Here's the problem:

[root@shiva log]# rpm -q vixie-cron
vixie-cron-3.0.1-42
[root@shiva log]# ps aux | grep cron
root      9212  0.0  1.5  1516  712 ?        S    14:11   0:00 crond
[root@shiva log]# grep touch /etc/crontab
* * * * * root touch /tmp/check-crontab
[root@shiva log]# date
Tue Apr 25 14:18:33 BST 2000
[root@shiva log]# grep check-crontab /var/log/cron | tail -3
root (04/25-14:16:00-9740) CMD (touch /tmp/check-crontab)
root (04/25-14:17:00-9780) CMD (touch /tmp/check-crontab)
root (04/25-14:18:00-9806) CMD (touch /tmp/check-crontab)
[root@shiva log]# date
Tue Apr 25 14:36:24 BST 2000
[root@shiva log]# ls -l /tmp/check-crontab
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root            0 Apr 25 14:12 /tmp/check-crontab
[root@shiva log]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart
Stopping cron daemon:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting cron daemon:                                      [  OK  ]
[root@shiva log]# date
Tue Apr 25 14:40:39 BST 2000
[root@shiva log]# ls -l /tmp/check-crontab
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root            0 Apr 25 14:37 /tmp/check-crontab

I am also running nss_ldap and openldap on this machine (all else works
fine). No ORPHAN messages. I have other machines running the same
combination that work fine (hard to reproduce).

No zombie processes or anything, it just makes a log entry but then doesn't
do the job.

Any ideas what might be happening?