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Stuck cron jobs

Howdy all,

I've search the web and posted this query to the Apple forums, but no joy so far.

My G4 Xserve (10.2.8) has had a problem with stuck cron jobs since I first set it up. When it first boots everything is fine, but it slowly accumulates stuck process over time, mostly cron jobs. For example, right now I have 54 stuck processes and the server was last rebooted 3 days ago.

ps output ends up mostly looking like this

<snip>
webmail 4369 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? UVs Wed12PM 0:00.00 (cron)
root 15522 0.0 -0.0 14124 92 ?? U Wed04PM 0:00.00 CRON
webmail 15524 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? UVs Wed04PM 0:00.00 (cron)
root 16691 0.0 -0.0 14124 92 ?? U Wed04PM 0:00.00 CRON
webmail 16693 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? UVs Wed04PM 0:00.00 (cron)
root 21102 0.0 -0.0 14124 92 ?? U Wed05PM 0:00.00 CRON
webmail 21104 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? UVs Wed05PM 0:00.00 (cron)
root 21680 0.0 -0.0 14124 92 ?? U Wed06PM 0:00.01 CRON
webmail 21683 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? UVs Wed06PM 0:00.00 (cron)
root 22967 0.0 -0.0 14124 92 ?? U Wed06PM 0:00.01 CRON
</snip>

I've tried killing the processes, but they won't die. The only way to clear them up seems to be to reboot.

Has anybody seen this before or have any idea how to deal with it.

TIA

Michael Coyne
seaturtle.org

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