On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Bastian Bittorf <bittorf at bluebottle.com> wrote: > one idea is to start crond with 'ulimit -c unlimited', > for getting a crashdump. what else i can do? You can, say, run crond under "strace -tt -s99", save the log and check what's there when it dies.