cron goes mad?

[David Jackson]

> 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