> On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, David Ford wrote:
>
> > i've had the very bad feeling that update has been dying. recently
> > it's been so bad that i'm considering a crontab script to check every
> > 30 minutes if it is running and relaunch it if needed. at first i
> > thought i had accidently killed the wrong pid in the past, but it's
> > happened nearly a dozen times now.
>
> This is in 2.2.10, right? update is still with us on my machine - has been
> alive for the last 6 days. It must be a problem somewhere in parts of the
> kernel that I don't use.
no, actually by memory i've noted it dying since mid 2.2. i run 99.999%
ext2fs, so i don't think the others have much reference.
-d
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