i am running sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1 this contains /bin/sleep i am running the following shellscript: #!/bin/bash set -e PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin PIDFILE=/var/local/run/proedruckd.pid if [ -e "$PIDFILE" ]; then logger 'proedruckd: not starting because pidfile already exists' exit 1 fi function cleanup() { logger 'proedruckd: exiting' rm -f "$PIDFILE" } trap cleanup EXIT echo $$ > "$PIDFILE" logger 'proedruckd: started' cd /Druckjobs/working while true; do for job in *; do if ! [ "$job" = '*' ]; then logger "proedruckd: job=x${job}x" NUMC=$(echo "$job"|sed 's/^.*C//') logger "proedruckd: job $job processing" set +e X="$(proehpgldruck "$job" "$NUMC" 1>&2 >/dev/null)" if ! [ $? = 0 ]; then X="proehpgldruck fehlgeschlagen. $X" fi set -e if ! [ "$X" = "" ]; then mail -s proedruckd erik@mine.lan <<EOF proedruckd hat Probleme mit dem job $job Die Meldung des proehpgldruck Programmes ist $X EOF fi logger "proedruckd: erasing job" rm -f "$job" fi done sleep 2 done you see in the second last line the command 'sleep 2'. in my former debian installation this shell script daemon ran forever. after porting it to gentoo i am experiencing the problem that occasionally it just dies. after starting it in a xterm i could see the message making it die: roy root # /usr/local/sbin/proedruckd /usr/local/sbin/proedruckd: line 48: 2327 User defined signal 1 sleep 2 roy root # line 48 is the line after the sleep call. the problem comes sometimes every two days, sometimes 2 times a day. i don't have a single clue why this sometimes happens. i am relativly sure that there is no other program running (at least not written by me!!!) that does something like a killall of all sleep processes with a SIGUSR1. i am confused and i don't know how to debug any further. for now i continue running that daemon from console so that i can restart it once it crashes in the sleep call. but of course that sucks :) cya! erik Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups doc emacs encode esd f77 fam foomaticdb fortran freetds gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mng motif mpeg mssql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb wmf x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de"
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