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    Job started by job daemon at midnight every Sunday morning brings system down

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 18.01

    Description:
    Every week at midnight on Sunday morning our system goes down. All of the servers, daemons, etc., on the server stop.

    Looking at the $alephe_scratch/jobd log, we see a line like this in the log, with a blank line where the job name should be:

    Current time: Sunday 30 March 2008 00:00:00

    Performing Jobs:
    ----------------



    And we see the following entry in $alephe_scratch at this time:

    0 ,1, 00:00:00

    That is, this is a 0-length file with the name ",1," at 00:00:00.

    A core dump is produced by a segmentation fault in connection with this event.

    Resolution:
    This problem was caused by a malformed entry in job_list. While a correctly-formatted entry might look like the following:

    W3 12:22:00 Y VIR01 clear_vir01 VIR01

    this entry looked like this:

    inked_headings,1,

    The ",1," was being interpreted as the name and -- since no day/time was included -- the system was defaulting to the first second of the first minute of the first hour of the first day of the week.

    Eliminating the preceding line from job_list, and doing util e/15/2 to kill the job daemon, followed by util e/15/1 to re-activate it, corrected the problem.


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013
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