# Bro crashes regularly **URL:** \ **Category:** Zeek\ **Created:** [September 7, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-regularly/2011 "2011-09-07T13:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Urbanski\_William](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e95f7d/32.png) [@Urbanski\_William](https://community.zeek.org/u/Urbanski_William)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-regularly/2011/1 "2011-09-07T13:21:22Z")
Hello! I am experiencing an issue where bro regularly crashes. A crash log is appended to this email. I am running a recent version of bro checked out of GIT last week. The OS is FreeBSD 8.2 x64. If there is no bug fix at this time, does anyone have a script that will check if bro has crashed and will restart in broctl? If the workers have crashed and I run 'check' in broctl it says that all workers and proxys are OK, but then if i do 'restart' it says that they have crashed. This might be another bug. Any info / tips would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Will ---
**Author:** ![Seth\_Hall3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Seth\_Hall3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall3)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-regularly/2011/2 "2011-09-07T13:45:21Z")
> Hello! I am experiencing an issue where bro regularly crashes. A crash > log is appended to this email We have a ticket filed for that bug and I expect a fix in the next day or two. > If there is no bug fix at this time, does anyone have a script that will > check if bro has crashed and will restart in broctl? If the workers have > crashed and I run 'check' in broctl it says that all workers and proxys > are OK, but then if i do 'restart' it says that they have crashed. This > might be another bug. Oh sorry, BroControl should be managing this for you already. You just need to set a cron job that runs BroControl's "cron" command every 5 minutes or so. Here's what I usually use... \*/5 \* \* \* \* /bro/bin/broctl cron You just need to adjust the path based on where you installed broctl obviously. 🙂 That will check to make sure everything is running and take care of a few other minor details as well.   .Seth ---
**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-regularly/2011/3 "2011-09-08T16:13:46Z")
There's a fix now in master that seems to fix it. Could you try? Robin ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-regularly/2011/4 "2022-05-06T15:39:48Z")