System Crash Troubleshooting

[Tim Alberts]

Andy Green wrote ..
> 
> Examine /etc/crontab and /var/spool/cron/* looking for something that
> was installed that runs the postgres user stuff every 5 mins.
> 
> Most often for nasty dead meat crashes I found the problem is an X
> driver.  Try the vesa driver instead for a while, if that actually works
> on your platform.
> 
> -Andy


I thought I mentioned, but I don't see it...

I did check cron and the only thing that is running every five minutes is mrtg.  I disabled that, and the messages kept coming.

I don't know if postgres is actually running anything, or if whatever this is is just using that account.  I have postgres installed, but it is not running.  I'm thinking I need to find a way of making a snapshot of the running processes right when this thing executes.  Anyone in the list have a good understanding of how to manage view running processes?