cron goes mad?

[David Jackson]

> Hi,
>   I've got the exact same problem.  :-(  The load on this workstation is
> up to 478.  :-)  I received no mail fron cron and there is nothing out
> of the ordinary in any of the logfiles in /var/log.  I did a:
>
> find / -xdev -name core | xargs ls -ld
>
> and there are no core files from within the last week.

I previous poster said that core dumps are turned off by default? Did
change your  settings?

Have you tried shutting down one cron job and a time, and run?

If a dump was created where would it be /tmp?

Has anyone checked the dev-list or bugzilla?

David