cron goes mad?

[Stephen Walton]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:18, David Jackson wrote:

[we're trying to track down a bunch of CROND jobs which appear to dump
core all at once.]

> An other consideration is where (and why) the core is being dumped to.
> If it's dumping to / ?

I can't determine which cron job is causing the CROND malfunctions. 
Even 'ps -faxlwww' shows CROND with no arguments as the command.  Now, I
see by experiment that when 'crond' spawns a job, it forks a copy of
itself called CROND which, in turn, runs the cron script as a child.  If
the child core dumps, does that result in another CROND process which
dumps core?  Or is the CROND process itself dumping core?

-- 
Stephen Walton <stephen.walton at csun.edu>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge