On 3/14/2011 3:24 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > <snip> >> >> (those commands should run the cron normally except starting at 03:00, >> where it should kick off at 3:15 instead of 03:05) >> >> If it also fails to start at 03:15 then that would suggest that >> something is happening to the cron job the last time it is run to make >> it hang (or make the system think it is hung). >> > I wonder if the other end has some file(s) locked for writing or other reason > and that is choking the local wget. But nothing the other end does should cause a kernel task hang. Shouldn't that only be inside a device driver? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com