cron goes mad?

[David Jackson]

> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 21:45, Mark Neidorff wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Stephen Walton wrote:
>>
>> > Has anyone else seen output from 'ps -faxwl' like this:
>> >
>> > 1     0  6366     1  16   0  2236  536 schedu S    ?          0:00
>> crond
>> > 1     0 16115  6366  16   0  5456 1256 do_for D    ?          0:00  \_
>> CROND
>> > 5     0 16116 16115  16   0  5456 1256 coredu D    ?          0:00  |
>>  \_ CROND
>> >
>> Is there sufficient disk space for the core dumps to complete?  That
>> could
>> be part of the problem.
Where's the dump cron script are you looking at?
An other consideration is where (and why) the core is being dumped to.
If it's dumping to / ?

Dave