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Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:31:02 +0200
From:      Spil Oss <spil.oss@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   cron jobs running early in virtual machine
Message-ID:  <CAEJyAvNm17i%2Bwt8d6yvs9BcEdBZyyEbVuaBBjydE7WyuC0Q2uA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

I have a FreeBSD 10 running in VMWare ESXi 5.5. ntp is properly
configured and the time on the server is fine.

What I've found is that cron jobs start early. I call newsyslog -v in
jails from the system crontab
in /etc/crontab
0       0       *       *       *       root    jx all newsyslog -v

jx is a simple wrapper to call that program in a named jail or 'all'
jails from jls
results in
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:59:08 +0200
Subject: Cron <root@gw> jx all newsyslog -v
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>

Jail: build
Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf
/var/log/daily.log <7>: --> will trim at Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 2014

So this will never cycle daily.log

What can cause cron to start all jobs early? I tested this with a
simple `date' in cron as well and that's early too

Kind regards,

Spil



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