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Date:      Sat, 31 May 2014 19:25:33 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron" processes
Message-ID:  <20140531122533.GA4842@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <536085BF.7010707@freebsd.org>
References:  <20140430033402.GA51407@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <536085BF.7010707@freebsd.org>

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Colin Percival wrote:
> On 04/29/14 20:34, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > I wonder why the "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron" process sometimes
> > runs in several copies (possibly corrupting the database).
> > 
> > It's started from cron at 6am every day, why should it multiply like
> > that?
> 
> The only thing I can think of is if some of those are running inside jails.

There are no jails on that host.

Is it at least safe to 
'rm -rf /var/db/freebsd-update/ && mkdir /var/db/freebsd-update/' 
and fetch from scratch?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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