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Cron cannot make it through 24 hours without locking up. When it locks up ps -x shows it to still be running, but it ceases executing it's assigned processes. to function again crond must killed and restarted. It does not make any difference what commands, which order, or which user, are involved. I have not been able to make it lock up on purpose. It does not matter if a user is logged in or not. it will eventually happen either way.
If you strace the locked up cron process, is it doing anything?
closed, lack of input.
We too suffer from this problem (but on i386). Here is what strace gives us: # strace -f -p 403 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {0x8049890, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 nanosleep({21474836, 0}, So it seems that cron is sleeping for 250 days... Can this bug be reopened?
Bug was for Red Hat Linux on Sparc architecture. This Hardware is no longer supported by Red Hat and the 6.1 release is considered to be end of lifed. Please look at http://auroralinux.org/ as this project has continued work on this hardware.