[Bro] Cron

[Paul Schmehl]

I didn't see an exit anywhere in the cron script.  Not being familiar with 
python syntax, I checked on the web, but it seems one is not required.

The problem is, my crons sit around forever and never exit.  I'm pretty 
sure this is not normal behavior, but what could be wrong?

# ps -auxwwww | grep "broctl cron"
root      58597  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:10PM   0:00.17 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58621  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:15PM   0:00.12 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58633  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:20PM   0:00.17 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58657  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:25PM   0:00.15 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58669  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:30PM   0:00.17 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58693  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:35PM   0:00.12 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58705  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:40PM   0:00.17 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58729  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:45PM   0:00.17 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58741  0.0  0.1 48332 10900  ??  Is    9:50PM   0:00.12 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58768  0.0  0.1 48332 11052  ??  Is    9:55PM   0:00.12 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      58797  0.0  0.1 48332 11052  ??  Is   10:00PM   0:00.13 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      59888  0.0  0.1 48332 11052  ??  Is   10:05PM   0:00.17 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      59988  0.0  0.1 48332 11052  ??  Is   10:10PM   0:00.17 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron
root      60013  0.0  0.1 48332 11052  ??  Is   10:15PM   0:00.12 
/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/broctl cron

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Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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