What happens at 6:30 am (besides that fetchmail seems to crash)?

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

Laura Conrad wrote:
> I've been having to restart fetchmail every morning on my ubuntu Edgy
> system.  It seems to stop running at about 6:30.  This has been true
> for the last week or so.
> 
> Of course any ideas about why that might be are welcome, but my
> current theory is that cron or at or something is running something
> then that fetchmail doesn't know how to deal with.  
> 
> So my specific question is: Is there an easy way to tell what's being
> run when? 

There's probably a cron log (/var/log/cron on my system).  You might check
that to see what cron is trying to do.

> Looking at the output of "ls -lt /var/log", it looks like that might
> be when logrotate is run by cron.daily.  So I might try disabling that
> for a day and see if it fixes the problem.  Does anyone have a better
> idea?

You might use the 'watch' program with 'ps -ef' (or somesuch) to monitor
changes to the list-of-currently-running-processes.

HTH,
Matt

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