the daemon that won't die
Colin Brace
cb at lim.nl
Sun Mar 2 22:02:09 UTC 2008
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Christian Walther <cptsalek at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you get an error from *cron* it means that greyscanner is executed
> from cron itself.
Christian,
no, I am not running greyscanner via cron.
However, there is this entry:
# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
*/11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
which I have temporarily commented out. The thing is, in terminal, I see this:
$ ps uax | grep greyscanner
operator 84730 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 6:44PM 0:00.10
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 84999 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 6:55PM 0:00.10
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 85162 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:00PM 0:00.09
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 85436 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:11PM 0:00.09
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 85736 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:22PM 0:00.09
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 86024 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:33PM 0:00.08
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 86327 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:44PM 0:00.08
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 86610 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 7:55PM 0:00.07
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 86772 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:00PM 0:00.07
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 87066 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:11PM 0:00.07
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 87377 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:22PM 0:00.06
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 87666 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:33PM 0:00.06
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 88051 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:44PM 0:00.06
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 88358 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 8:55PM 0:00.05
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 88521 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:00PM 0:00.05
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 88833 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:11PM 0:00.05
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 89175 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:22PM 0:00.04
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 89479 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:33PM 0:00.04
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 89807 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:44PM 0:00.03
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 90127 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 9:55PM 0:00.03
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 90291 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:00PM 0:00.03
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 90604 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:11PM 0:00.02
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 90946 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:22PM 0:00.02
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 91265 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:33PM 0:00.02
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 91619 0.0 1.1 7928 5468 ?? I 10:44PM 0:00.01
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
I can't figure out what the heck is going on; what the connection is
between the greyscanner script and the cron errors. Note that the
above is happening every eleven minutes, just like the "save-entropy"
cron entry.
Thanks.
--
Colin Brace
Amsterdam
http://lim.nl
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