Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 17 April 2010 10:47:15 Mick wrote: > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > > > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:00:02 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping: >On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] >> ... and as for vixie-cron: When software doesn't act like it's >> supposed to, breaks in horrible ways w

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Mick
On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly > > >> first time, not even on th

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly > >> first time, not even on the archives. > >> > >> Its been happening for a while but I have

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Mick
On Friday 16 April 2010 19:22:42 kashani wrote: > On 4/15/2010 1:20 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly > >> first time, not even on the archives. > >> > >> Its been happenin

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything betw

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread kashani
On 4/15/2010 1:20 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so of

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-15 Thread Matt Harrison
On 15/04/2010 09:20, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You probably don't want to hear this, but: > > vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's > weird behaviours. > > Use a different cron daemon. > I don't mind hearing this :) I only use vixie-cron as that is what I start

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly > first time, not even on the archives. > > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but > every so often (anything between a week or an h

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:36:38 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, > but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just > stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. Try running it from a terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first > time, not > even on the archives. > > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but > every so > often (anything between a week or