[lug] Unusual cron checks

[Zan Lynx]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:44 -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> I noticed yesterday and today that yum was getting stuck during a
> nightly cron task.  I'm not sure which cron task it is yet, but I before
> I killed it off I noticed some unusual awk statements.  After I killed
> it off I saw similar statements for other cron tasks, such as:
> 
>  1710 ?        S      0:00 crond
>  1711 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>  1719 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/0check4updates
>  1720 ?        S      0:00 awk -v
> progname=/etc/cron.daily/0check4updates progname {?????   print progname
> ":\n"?????   progname="";????       }????       { print; }
> 
> Those question marks seem odd.  Anyone seen anything like this before?

Characters that ps doesn't want to display.  You can probably find out
what they are by doing something like cat /proc/1720/cmdline | xxd
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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