I emerged vpopmail, and then unemerged it when I realized I didn't need it. After that my server started crash after no more then two days uptime. ps ax shows lots of cron jobs building up, and the main symptom was a slowly rising system load which I monitored climb from 20 to 100 once. System becomes unresponsible and returns input output errors. Im not a cron expert, and dont know how a cron could cause this, but it did. My problem finally went away after I deleted the vpopmail cron job I found in my cron.daily folder (I think it was daily.) I use vcron if that matters at all. Totally killed my server for a week until I found the cron job though. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
the only vpopmail cronjob is in cron.hourly, and if you unmerged it, the cronjob should have just failed. could you please try to reproduce the problem and see what the hell vcron is doing? It should simply send you an error email saying it couldn't run the cronjob.
Thought originally I had a corelation between the vpopmail cron job and system crashed, the same crash symptoms have now suddenly returned, this time with the absense of vpopmail. Will update if I learn anything more pertinent.
