Re: Cricket crashing on network timeout

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:58:47AM +1300, Simon Allard wrote:
...
> The collector process quits competly, leaving the lock file.
> 
> I have managed to fix the problem, but still not 100% sure why my fix
> worked. What I did was disabled all logging output by a quick and dirty perl
> hack in the Log.pm file, which just returned from sub Log, rather than doing
> the logging.
> 
> My guess is I have a misconfiguration somewhere, and when a device errored
> it caused a broken pipe somewhere, I assume to a mail program?
> 
> 
> email-program       = /usr/bin/mailx
> 
> Which doesn't exist, hence the broken pipe and the crash.

I just looked through Log.pm  - it doesn't reference the email program.
It prints logging information to stderr, which is presumably
redirected somewhere.

If you can reliably reproduce the problem, change your cron entry to
invoke ktrace/truss/systrace or the like.  The output should tell
you what's going on.

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