i checked crontab. That was the very first thing I did. You can also look at /var/log/cron file. There is a time stamp
and it lists any task which it is about to run. So, if it was cron issue, there would have a log in the file. Here is a sample
of what the /var/log/cron looks like.
Well, power went down twice yesterday, so the system rebooted. Also, I'm running low on CMOS battery, so have to
change it this weekend (got 10 cr2032 batteries for $4 shipped from ebay). But after changing mysql, the system
survived for 8+ days ! That's the longest it has stayed up so far !
But anyway, I'm thinking to upgrade the system by installing ubuntu on it in the weekend. I'm going to install pchdtv HD3000 card in the system and use it as backend mythtv system. Since HD3000 directly dumps the mpeg stream into the file, the cpu usage is almost nothing.
When it runs as a backend, the data is transmitted via TCP/IP (NFS mount). So, hopefully, there is no load on the server. All the work is done in the frontend. Thinking about a P4 3.4ghz front end in near future. But thats a different topic.
--------- sample of my /var/log/cron
As you can see, I'm running "sa" every minute on the minute. I know its inefficient, but thats how the sa is written.
Apr 14 11:57:00 bp6 CROND[8182]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
Apr 14 11:58:00 bp6 CROND[10527]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
Apr 14 11:59:01 bp6 CROND[12673]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
Apr 14 12:00:00 bp6 CROND[15095]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
Apr 14 12:01:00 bp6 CROND[16995]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Apr 14 12:01:00 bp6 CROND[16996]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
Apr 14 12:02:00 bp6 CROND[19380]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
Apr 14 12:03:00 bp6 CROND[21048]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)