From: Gipson, Mat (Mat.Gipson@AMERICREDIT.COM)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 09:42:53 EST
Way ahead of you...however we cannot just kill these processes. They are
defunct and therefore require bouncing the server. Cron it self cannot even
be killed with a -9! Also while cron is in this defunct state he is one of
the top processes consuming a large amount of resources on the server. I was
mainly polling everyone to see if they have ever experienced the same issue
and what the resolution was.
Mathew Gipson
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817.525.7123
-----Original Message-----
From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 6:32 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Problem with cron...
The simplest thing to do may be to kill these processes - including cron
itself. It should re-spawn.
It would be sensible to figure out what these defunct processes are and make
sure whatever the problem is gets cleared up. I presume that the problem
lies with a script scheduled from cron, rather than cron itself.
Simon Green
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gipson, Mat [mailto:Mat.Gipson@AMERICREDIT.COM]
Sent: 19 February 2003 17:47
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Problem with cron...
7026-6H1
AIX4.3.3
ML10
Cron seems to be in a zombie state with 2 child process that are defunct:
#pstree 36728
-+= 36728 root /usr/sbin/cron
|--- 27892 calltech <defunct>
\--- 31124 root <defunct>
Also whenever I save a crontab I receive this error message:
#crontab -e
....
....
<shift+ZZ>
0481-120 The cron program may need to be started.
...however the cron process is already running!
There have been no patches applied to this server. It is a clone of a test
server and the test does not suffer the same issues. The result is that cron
jobs don't run<obviously>....kind of stumped. I have already searched the
archives. Any help offered is greatly appreciated!
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