Server freezes when running daily cronjob

[Alexander Troppmann]

Hi,

I'm running a webserver with Fedora Core 1 and have troubles with an (yet 
unkown) daily running cronjob. It seems that a process started from 
/etc/cron.daily at 4:02h in the morning freezes the linux kernel so the 
server returns back to work by a hardware reset only... :-(

Unfortunatly I cannot find out which one is the process responsible for the 
server crash. I tried to run each job from console myself but everything was 
fine, no errors or kernel freezes.

The last entries in some logfiles are exactly at 4:02 o'clock (Apache logs and 
cron logfile) and the crashed happened for the third time today - last 
programs executed were always the daily cronjobs...

Here's a list of my cronjobs:

root at localhost:~ > ll /etc/cron.daily/
total 11
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   28 Mar  5 04:44 00-logwatch -> 
../log.d/scripts/logwatch.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  288 Mar  8 12:27 00webalizer
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  276 Jul 10  2003 0anacron
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  180 Aug  1  2003 logrotate
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  418 Oct 13 21:27 makewhatis.cron
-rwxr-x---  1 root root   61 Feb 19 02:30 mysql_check.cron
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1455 Oct 27 20:32 prelink
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  104 Jul 18  2003 rpm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  132 Jan 21 20:52 slocate.cron
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  193 Jun  6  2003 tmpwatch
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  136 Feb 23 22:12 yum.cron

Also I cannot find anything about similiar troubles in Google...

I hope that someone may help - or maybe anybody else knows this strange 
behaviour and founds a solution?

thanks & best regards,
talex