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# 8  
Old 01-05-2006
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Originally Posted by Just Ice
have you tried comparing the checksums of the cron binaries across the similar systems?
This checks out BTW. They're a match.
# 9  
Old 01-05-2006
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Originally Posted by blowtorch
Just one thing, when a cronjob is executed, cron forks itself and execs the job under that process. So if you have thousands of cronjobs scheduled very close together, you may see thousands of cron processes.

The next time you see such behaviour, check the ppid of all the cron processes. If it is the same, they were spawned from the cron daemon.
This is a good point, but I really do not have thousands of cron jobs running on this machine. There is a maximum of 6 or so and they all run with a reasonable amount of time in between each other.
# 10  
Old 01-14-2006
if you still haven't rebuilt this box, what is the difference between this box and the other boxes? specifically, is it function (i.e., database server, development server, etc.) or is it software (i.e., network monitoring, development tools, etc.) or both that makes this server different from the base build ... how many users are logging into this box and what do they do? ... if development server, does the error start around the time there's a major project underway like some big compile? ... and what do the system logs say?
# 11  
Old 01-17-2006
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Originally Posted by Just Ice
if you still haven't rebuilt this box, what is the difference between this box and the other boxes? specifically, is it function (i.e., database server, development server, etc.) or is it software (i.e., network monitoring, development tools, etc.) or both that makes this server different from the base build ... how many users are logging into this box and what do they do? ... if development server, does the error start around the time there's a major project underway like some big compile? ... and what do the system logs say?
I haven't rebuilt yet, but it's slated to be done in the near future.

There is actually no difference at all between this system and the others. They all perform the same function, are from the same build, same crontab files, etc.

Two users log into the box, me and the primary account for the function of the software on the box. Same as the others. As far as I know, this box hasn't been used in a few months and there has been no activity recently.

I haven't been able to find anything in the logs as to something going haywire. It's quite an oddity.
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