[classic-discuss] /etc/cron.weekly failure

[Jaakko Heinonen]

On 2005-12-12, Mikael Bak wrote:
> /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron:
> 
> /usr/bin/makewhatis: line 145:  5796 Broken pipe             ${cat} ${x}
>       5797 Segmentation fault      | iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -o
> /dev/null 2>/dev/null
> /usr/bin/makewhatis: line 145:  9895 Done                    echo ${x}
>       9896 Segmentation fault      | $AWK '

Can you reproduce this? You can start /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron
manually since the cron job runs only weekly. If you can't reproduce it
it may be a random hardware problem or some hard to hit kernel bug.

If I interpreted the error messages correctly it was zcat or bzcat that
first segfaulted. I think that it's improbable that there's such bug in
those programs.

-- 
Jaakko