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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users cron/logrotate chicken and egg problem Post 302235382 by Annihilannic on Thursday 11th of September 2008 10:19:53 PM
Old 09-11-2008
Have you established whether cron stops running all jobs when it's in this state? Just the cron.hourly? Or just jobs for a specific user (i.e. root in this case)? Also, are there any other cron jobs stuck at the time?

Have you tried strace-ing a crond that's stuck like this? Also, does a pkill -HUP crond "wake" it up again?

It might also be worth running cron with some debugging options, although they don't seem to be very well documented. The best reference (for Vixie cron) I've found so far is:

Mac OS X Manual Page For cron(8)
 

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