Re: [cobalt-users] Cron is dead

[Kul <WebMaster@xxxxxxx>]

David Safarik wrote:

> A few days ago I applied the latest patches from Cobalt to my Raq3.  I have
> since discovered that my RaQ was restarted yesterday (I'm not sure why) and
> that crond wasn't running when the server came back up.  I can run crond
> manually but it doesn't automatically start when the server is re-booted.  I
> presume crond needs a symbolic link in the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d directory to auto
> start?
>
> My questions are -
> 1) What should I name the link?
> 2) Do I need to put the link in any other rcx.d directory?
> 3) It appears that I have more free memory than usual so I'm suspecting that
> something else may be missing.  Can someone compare their rc3.d directory to
> mine (listed below) and let me know if anything else is missing?
>
> Any ideas how this may have happened?
> TIA
> Dave
> <snip>

Hi Dave,
1)
    cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
    ln -s ../init.d/crond ./S40crond

I had the exact same problem, cept I found out immediatly that there woz a problem.  So I just re-created the symbolic link, and rebooted again (to make sure :~)

It seems some Raqs have this link in the rc4.d directory instead, and those raq3s didn't have this much fun during a reboot!  Not sure why some are in the rc4.d and others in rc3.d

2)
Anyhow, I dont beleive there was any other mention anywhere on the raq before of this link, so just there seems fine.

3)
The only ones I can find that dont match mine are:
K40snmpd    -- mines in rc2.d
K45named    -- mines in rc2.d
S65tomcat   -- I dont use this one anyhow
S90mysql    -- I dont use this one anyhow

I have extras (you may find these hiding elsewhere):
S40crond -> ../init.d/crond    --  obviously :)
S40snmpd -> ../init.d/snmpd
S55named -> ../init.d/named
S55sshd -> ../init.d/sshd
S90poprelayd -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/poprelayd


It seems to have been a *feature* <g> the release (RaQ3-All-Security-4.0.1-9648.pkg)
--
Regards
Kul