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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:46:54 -0500 (EST)
From: joey@kite.ml.org (Joey Hess)
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Subject: smail: upgrading smail killed cron

Package: smail
Version: 3.2-3

The last entries I see in my /var/log/cron.log are:

Dec  4 14:23:00 kite /USR/SBIN/CRON[23754]: (mail) CMD (runq) 
Dec  4 14:24:00 kite /USR/SBIN/CRON[23788]: (root) CMD (atrun -d -l 0.5) 
Dec  4 14:25:00 kite /USR/SBIN/CRON[23817]: (root) CMD (atrun -d -l 0.5) 
Dec  4 14:26:00 kite /USR/SBIN/CRON[23833]: (root) CMD (atrun -d -l 0.5) 
Dec  4 14:27:00 kite /USR/SBIN/CRON[24181]: (root) CMD (atrun -d -l 0.5) 
Dec  4 14:28:00 kite /USR/SBIN/CRON[24188]: (root) CMD (atrun -d -l 0.5) 
Dec  4 14:29:00 kite /USR/SBIN/CRON[24207]: (root) CMD (atrun -d -l 0.5) 
Dec  4 14:30:00 kite /USR/SBIN/CRON[24501]: (root) CMD (atrun -d -l 0.5) 
Dec  4 14:30:04 kite crontab[24516]: (root) DELETE (mail) 
Dec  4 14:30:27 kite crontab[24992]: (root) REPLACE (mail) 

The last 2 lines were when I upgraded from smail 3.2-2 to 3.2-3. 6 hours
later, I've noticed that cron is no longer running. So I _think_ that 
upgrading smail somehow killed cron, or caused it to die. 

I restarted cron and it's running now with no problems so far.

I have had a history of problems with the cron process dying unexpectedly on
my machine, but this hasn't happened in at least 3 weeks until today.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.2
Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.0.27 #2 Sun Dec 1 17:33:35 EST 1996 i586

Versions of the packages smail depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.13-1
libgdbm1	Version: 1.7.3-11
cron	Version: 3.0pl1-36

--- Begin /etc/smail/crontab (modified conffile)
3,23,43	*	* * *		runq
--- End /etc/smail/crontab