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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:20:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004151020.32743.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100415005815.GA27326@genestate.com>

On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote:
> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly
> first time, not even on the archives.
> 
> Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but
> every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops.
> There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops.
> 
> I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone
> here has some good ideas :)
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Matt

You probably don't want to hear this, but:

vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's 
weird behaviours.

Use a different cron daemon.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-15  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-15  0:58 [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping Matt Harrison
2010-04-15  1:58 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-15  8:20 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-04-16  1:27   ` Matt Harrison
2010-04-16 17:58   ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2010-04-16 18:09     ` Stroller
2010-04-16 21:33     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-16 18:22   ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2010-04-16 18:58     ` Mick
2010-04-16 18:29   ` Dale
2010-04-16 21:25     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17  8:47       ` Mick
2010-04-17 10:25         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17 12:59         ` [gentoo-user] " Lie Ryan
2010-04-17 13:08           ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17 14:19             ` Lie Ryan
2010-04-17 15:10             ` Mick
2010-04-17 15:39               ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17 18:12                 ` Mick
2010-04-17 19:52                   ` walt
2010-04-17 20:55                   ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17 22:01                     ` Mick
2010-04-17 22:05                       ` Mick
2010-04-17 13:13           ` David Relson
     [not found] <ezlKF-2tK-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <ezYCm-1xN-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <eA1qy-6iK-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <eAc2C-7md-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-04-17  9:56       ` [gentoo-user] " David W Noon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-15  0:36 Matt Harrison
2010-04-15  8:16 ` Neil Bothwick

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