Strange bug (buffer overflow) happening only under cron

[Kevin Korb]

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It sounds like your cron jobs are memory limited.  Can you put 'ulimit
- -a' into a cron job and see what it outputs?

On 10/28/11 09:51, Pedro Fortuny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running OS X Snow Leopard on the 'sender' side and
> Linux (2.6.32, possibly fedora but unsure) on the 'receiver'
> side. Both with rsync 3.0.9.
> 
> If I run the following command from the command line:
> 
>  /usr/local/bin/rsync -av -e "ssh -i \
>      /Users/pedrofortunyayuso/.ssh/backup_pfortuny_net" \
>      --filter ': rsync.dirs' ~/ pfortuny at pfortuny.net:"~/backup_mbpro/"
> 
> Everything works OK. However, if I run it as a cron task, I
> receive the following mail:
> 
> [headers stripped]
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=pedrofortunyayuso>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=pedrofortunyayuso>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/Users/pedrofortunyayuso>
> Message-Id: <20111028133407.4BC171BF226 at mypera.local>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:34:01 +0200 (CEST)
> Status: RO
> 
> cp: ./Dropbox/HostMonsterPage/doc/ampliacion.pdf: No such file or directory
> cp: ./Dropbox/HostMonsterPage/doc/metodos.pdf: No such file or directory
> building file list ... ERROR: buffer overflow in recv_rules [Receiver]
> rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(123) [Receiver=3.0.9]
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (157 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9]
> 
> I am attaching a -avvvv output at the end of the mail. I cannot
> figure out what the matter may be.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> 
> Pedro Fortuny.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Pedro Fortuny Ayuso
> http://pfortuny.net
> EPIG, Campus de Viesques, Gijon
> Dpto. de Matematicas
> Universidad de Oviedo
> fortunypedro at uniovi.es
> 
> 

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