From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 05:11:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B7029B3 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from o3.shared.sendgrid.net (o3.shared.sendgrid.net [208.117.48.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A4C61C69 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:11:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h=from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=5yPJnA8zcHhYb5hEP6voQliPUJM=; b=yShhJNgl2Z0ms8dA/y pC+3dI2BRWuw7ndTppjrRuPqVYzrkVj0fMxiD0iZ/lXPquhMltKXIjHCRQACUY8o zekrW2KwxdIC+/wKhMaPxjNuQu03C+yn1W69ImHyLAeH9bPlthOrPar32L362+F4 /pxJYeW+KPiQoxOrLlk73NmgM= Received: by mf204.sendgrid.net with SMTP id mf204.27119.536086145 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.100.60.97]) by ismtpd-017 (SG) with ESMTP id 145b10bbe9e.45a1.6ec01 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:11:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 60489 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2014 05:11:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by ec2-107-20-205-189.compute-1.amazonaws.com with ESMTP; 30 Apr 2014 05:11:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 45323 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2014 05:10:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 30 Apr 2014 05:10:23 -0000 Message-ID: <536085BF.7010707@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:10:23 -0700 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Victor Sudakov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron" processes References: <20140430033402.GA51407@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20140430033402.GA51407@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SG-EID: FFnPVu6lb0A5TuepcCdqxLOfczNEIxluOZzq9GOc07qjoDt+uosH+bCRqUSP+lkh8mwTltnBm7Lp9xQbKcgp55oKu9NJU/QooEi72NNFHNQo8eEO40EvEg8frxDnw3ayG5ZquFYNDXDcmKl06XCMeD5t8HfmOoZ/j9mK4goAJkY= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:11:55 -0000 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. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid