cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"
Support (Rudy)
support at monkeybrains.net
Mon Dec 3 21:26:05 PST 2007
Below is part of the cron... Seems like any random cronjob can get clogged up... load varies from
0.2 to 1.0 on this dual-core box. I rebooted the box -- cron's continue to slowly pile up.
One of the cronjobs that is 'stuck' is this one: /root/bin/raid-status.sh
which can be found here:
http://www.monkeybrains.net/~rudy/example/raid_status.html
Forgot to mention, I am running:
6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #3: Thu May 31 01:18:15 PDT 2007
OH, ps shows this:
58383 ?? D 0:00.00 cron: running job (cron)
58384 ?? IVs 0:00.00 cron: running job (cron)
/var/log/cron has this entry:
Dec 3 20:16:00 pita /usr/sbin/cron[58384]: (root) CMD (/root/bin/raid-status.sh CRON)
BUT there is no 'raid-status.sh' stuck in the "ps axw". Seems like the vfork set off the cronjob,
it ran, but then cron didn't 'stop' executing. Any debuggin tips?
Rudy
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PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
MAILTO=cron at example.net
#### Root Cron for example.net ####
##################################
# check demons, limit sendmail, generate fwdmail aliases
##################################
*/10 * * * * /root/bin/10minutes.mail.sh | mail -E -s "[ERROR] example.monkeybrains.net"
cron at example.net
*/16 * * * * /root/bin/raid-status.sh CRON
##################################
# Anti-Spam measures
##################################
1 5 * * * /usr/local/etc/mail/blacklist2access.pl | /usr/bin/mail -E -s "[INFO] mail:
blacklist2access script" cron at example.net
## update the rules/balcklists list
40 5 * * * /usr/local/bin/sa-update --allowplugins --gpgkey
D1C035168C1EBC08464946DA258CDB3ABDE9DC10 --channel saupdates.openprotect.com &&
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd restart
48 5 * * * /usr/local/bin/sa-update --channel updates.spamassassin.org &&
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd restart
## and anti-virus
49 */2 * * * su -m clamav -c '/usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet'
@weekly /usr/bin/find /var/tmp/ -maxdepth 1 -and -path "*clamav*" -and -type d -and \! -newermt '2
days ago' -and -delete
#######################################################################
# Clean stuff up
# old trash, viruses, old spam, and authdaemon cache
#######################################################################
## squirrelmail attachments
45 3 * * * /usr/bin/find /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach \! -newermt '9 day ago' -delete
## stuff marked as Trash or in Trash folder
55 3 * * * /usr/bin/find /home /data/virtual/ -path "*/Maildir/*" -and -name "*:*T" -and \!
-newermt '2 day ago' -delete
35 3 * * * /usr/bin/find /home/ /data/virtual/ -path "*/Maildir/.Trash/*" -name "*net*" -and \!
-newermt '4 day ago' -delete
... etc ...
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