Recent problem with anacron cron.daily hanging.

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-02-19, Adam Funk wrote:

> A few days ago I started getting this strange problem: my cron.daily
> job was never finishing, so the next day's job couldn't run and a lot
> of the functions weren't getting run.  I have to use a root shell in
> xterm to kill the hanging process, then watch with `ps aux` to see
> what hangs next, and so on.  The hanging processes are mainly --- but
> not only --- in logrotate postrotate scripts.

I rebooted last night and cron.daily ran normally this morning.

But I haven't figured out why this made a difference.