by My SCO OpenServer 5.05 has had me running in circles this week - I
just hope that someone out there has a clue.
Problem: Most nights recently the nightly backup job has failed to
run - and - the Btrieve (Faircom CTree) server is also down in the
morning. When I finish killing and restarting the CTree server to
get the users application online, then the backup job starts right
on up. AARG
Then I have to do a recovery on the databases since the server
crashed with some users who forgot to logout.
And I swear "I haven't changed a thing in months!" <<right!>>
To debug - I turned on cron logging (in /etc/defaults), and set up a
NOHUP script to snapshot the "PS -ef" every 30 secs to catch some
system state before and after the server dissappears ... and lo ..
it failed right about midnight - when cron log and PS listing shows
it kicked off "cronsched -r".
---snipit from /usr/lib/cron/log
< uucp 27544 c Tue Aug 1 23:45:01 2000Quote:> CMD: ulimit 5000; /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.clean > /dev/null
> uucp 27544 c Tue Aug 1 23:45:00 2000
< root 27985 c Wed Aug 2 00:03:52 2000Quote:> CMD: scosh cronsched -r
> root 27985 c Wed Aug 2 00:00:00 2000
rc=1 <===== shows rc - and apparently killed the ctbg daemon!!
< uucp 28073 c Wed Aug 2 00:09:01 2000Quote:> CMD: /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hour > /dev/null
> uucp 28073 c Wed Aug 2 00:09:01 2000
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What the blazes is cronsched ? And why might it be destructively
interfering with the server ??? And why now after years of faithful
service ?? Is this a sighting of the dreaded Y2K monster at last??
Any help, pointers to man pages, or websites is greatly appreciated.
This daily drill is wearing thin.
Dave Smart