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The Invisible Cron Job

On a server we know there is a database backup process which runs twice a day but there is nothing related in the “crontab -e” text content. Why?

An error has occurred in Atlassian Confluence

I got the following error page when using Atlassian Confluence version 5.5.6, which tells me several facts:

  1. Confluence is using Struts, String and Hibernate based on Java;

  2. Tomcat is used;

  3. The Java frameworks are really complex from the point of call stack view. This is the longest Java call stack(356) I have even seen.