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

[Mikael Bak]

Hi,

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:50, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:

> 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.
> 

The script ran without problem when started manually from the console.
I should perhaps check the memory sticks.

> 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.

Yes. Random things like this is probably bad hardware. 
I've had reports before from the users of this machine that sometimes
big print jobs don't finish... so perhaps cups or something else
segfaults too without my knowlege.

Thanks guys for the help!
Mikael