news@investor.UUCP ( Bob Peirce) (10/26/88)
Cron seems to be set up to die if it can't run a progarm. A while back
I set the sticky bits on a number of programs and now I find everytime
I run pathalias cron goes away. When pathalias is running, freemem and
freeswp get very small, to the point where some programs won't run because
they can't get space. At this point it looks like cron dies if it can't
get space to run a progarm.
I don't know if this is the fact, but if it is it is not a nice solution.
Cron should try to leave a message in the log or through mail telling
somebody why it died.
Now that I know the problem, I will unstick some programs or buy more
RAM, but it shouldn't be this difficult to figure out what is going
wrong!
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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320
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