Re: [suse-sles-e] Heads up: crond needing restart after crontab update

From: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviu_marin-caea_at_fieldinsights.ro)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2006 - 16:14:12 CEST


From: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:14:12 +0300
Message-Id: <200606011714.12924.silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Heads up: crond needing restart after crontab update

On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:11, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 16:51, Lars Müller wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:56:17PM +0300, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> > > I had a bunch of servers that were set to automatic update. On those
> > > servers, the cron daemon stopped working after the recent update and
> > > needed to be restarted.
> >
> > I've tested it with two x86 and one x86_64 system and cron is running
> > even after the updates applied with YaST Online Update in the GUI or
> > text based version.
>
> Cron was still running, but not executing jobs (from user's crontabs)

Actually, no jobs. Look, there's no cron.hourly after online_update:

May 31 20:59:01 scoring /USR/SBIN/CRON[3520]: (root) CMD ( rm
-f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
May 31 21:09:51 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 21:29:51 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 21:49:51 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 21:59:01 scoring /USR/SBIN/CRON[9602]: (root) CMD ( rm
-f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
May 31 22:09:51 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 22:29:51 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 22:49:51 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 22:59:01 scoring /USR/SBIN/CRON[15706]: (root) CMD ( rm
-f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
May 31 23:09:52 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 23:29:52 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 23:49:52 scoring -- MARK --
May 31 23:59:01 scoring /USR/SBIN/CRON[21687]: (root) CMD ( rm
-f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
Jun 1 00:00:01 scoring /USR/SBIN/CRON[21770]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa2
-A)
Jun 1 00:29:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 00:30:01 scoring /USR/SBIN/CRON[24763]: (root) CMD (online_update )
Jun 1 00:49:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 01:09:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 01:29:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 01:49:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 02:09:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 02:29:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 02:49:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 03:09:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 03:49:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 04:09:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 04:29:52 scoring -- MARK --
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Jun 1 05:09:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 05:29:52 scoring -- MARK --
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Jun 1 06:29:52 scoring -- MARK --
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Jun 1 07:49:52 scoring -- MARK --
Jun 1 08:09:52 scoring -- MARK --

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