Hi...
We have a machine installed from s/390-Rawhide, on which I have been experiencing strange behaviour.
It was initially installed with the kernel-BOOTvrdr-2.2.18-0.16, and that worked fine.
But I decided to test the kernel-BOOTvrdr-2.4.0-0.99.20 so I rebuilt it from the src.rpm ("rpm -bb kernel-2.4.0-0.99.20.src.rpm"
Booting the new kernel everything worked fine, or so it seemed...
After leaving the system running for a weekend I tried to log on to it using SSH, but could not connect,
so I logged on using the from the VM/ESA side, and what I found was a couple of hundred CROND processes
(I could not count them before the system locked up, probably since it was running low on resources).
I figured there would be a bug in crond, and installed the vixie-cron-3.0.1-38.5.2 (rebuilt from src.rpm), but that did not help...
What I finally did to avoid the problem was to comment out the "rmmod -as" from "/etc/cron.d/kmod".
This stopped the problem from occuring, but I think there might be a problem here somewhere so maybe it should be looked in to.
/John Fogelvik
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John Fogelvik
Ericsson Internet Support
Västberga, Sweden
Ericsson Process & Application Consulting
John.Fogelvik@Ericsson.COM
