cron  long term stability?

Forum: Apps
Topic: cron  long term stability?
started by: msuho

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Posted by msuho on Mar. 02 2005,16:27

Hey folks-

I'm running DSL 9.0,  installed to the hard drive  on an 800mhz mini-itx box. I have the debian cron package installed, version 3.0pl1-72. I noticed that my cron daemon had died this morning.

Looking back, I started cron on Feb 12. It's run until now with no trouble. So my system uptime was around 17 days. Plenty of mememory, disk, CPU available. No new software installed. The machine runs in my basement, and monitors an analog/digital converter attached to its serial port- that's usually the only load on it.

Anybody else here running cron on a DSL box that's up all the time? Anybody noticed behavior like this?

Thanks,

Mark

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Posted by tronik on Mar. 02 2005,19:30

hi msuho,

I run crond on a DSL machine that is up all the time. I'll keep an eye on it. Maybe you could add it to your logging facility (syslogd?)  and keep an eye on it from that way. make sure you get the logging channels proper from crond's manpages or documentation and configure your logging daemon accordingly..

oh btw, maybe you could upgrade too =)

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Posted by msuho on Mar. 03 2005,01:26

Tronik-

Hey, it seems like yesterday that I upgraded from 8.3

I need to keep better track of what I've loaded post-hdinstall. As it stands now,
my upgrade would be rather messy.

Thanks,

Mark

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