sql file in cron.daily folder

sahostking

• July 24, 2014 03:39

Hi, We have a client that somehow has his server go down each day at a specific time. We checked and found a large .sql file over 4GB (looks like a backup of all his databases) in the /etc/cron.daily folder. Can this have caused the outage. Will it run that file? Load seems to go from 1.43 average to 200 in matter of minutes. It's the only thing we can see that has changed on the server and looks very suspicous. Just want to know if a .sql file will be run as a cron in the /etc/cron.daily folder instead of only .sh files?

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  sahostking

  • July 24, 2014 09:58

  ok figured out I can just use iotop --only to view what is using causing it.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 24, 2014 14:19

  Hello :) I suggest moving that SQL file out of the cron directory, as it really serves no purpose there. Note that you may also find the following thread helpful: Troubleshooting High Loads On Linux Systems Thank you.

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